雁

See also: 鳫

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 厂 + semantic 人 + semantic 隹

Han character

雁 (radical 172 隹+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一人人土 (MOOG), four-corner 7121₄)

1. wild goose (as opposed to a domesticated goose, 鵝)

Descendants

• 贋, 㷳

References

• KangXi: page 1364, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41960
• Dae Jaweon: page 1868, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4093, character 2
• Unihan data for U+96C1

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Cantonese

Hanzi

雁 (Yale ngaan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

雁

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: がん (gan)
• Kun: かり (kari)

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Korean

Hanja

雁 (an) (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an, Yale an)

1. (기러기 안, gireogi-): wild goose, whose skein flies in wedge or cuneiform, in contrast with 鵝 (거위 아, geowi-a), the domestic goose that would not fly at all.

Compounds

• 家雁 (가안, ga-an) domestic goose, literally, house goose.

See also

• 鵝 (거위 아, geowi-a) domesticated goose ^
• 鵠 (고니 곡, goni-gok) swan
• 鳧 (물오리 부, mur-ori-bu) mallard
• 鷺 (해오리 로, hae-ori-ro) heron, egret
• 鶴 (두루미 학, durumi-hak) crane
• 鸛 (한새 관, han-sae-gwan) stork, literally, "big bird"
• 鸛 (황새 관, hwang-sae-gwan) stork, literally, "big bird"

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Mandarin

Hanzi

雁 (Pinyin yā (ya1), yá (ya2), yàn (yan4), Wade-Giles ya¹, ya², yen⁴)

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