餡

See also 馅

Translingual

shinjitai	餡
simplified	馅
traditional	餡

Alternative forms

Note that in Japanese this is a traditional (kyujitai) character, and the left component is written as 𠊊 rather than as 飠 (食).

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 飠 (“food”) + phonetic 臽 – a kind of food.

Han character

餡 (radical 184 食+8, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓竹X (OINHX), four-corner 8777₇)

1. pastry filling, stuffing

Descendants

• 馅

References

• KangXi: page 1421, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44224
• Dae Jaweon: page 1947, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4460, character 17
• Unihan data for U+9921

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Cantonese

Hanzi

餡 (simplified 馅, Yale haam5, haam2)

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Japanese

Kanji

餡

Readings

• On: かん (kan), あん (an)
• Kun: あん (an), あんこ (anko)

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Mandarin

simpl.		馅
trad.		餡

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ ɕiɛn˥˩ ]

Hanzi

餡 (simplified 馅, pinyin xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles hsien⁴)

Noun

餡 (traditional, Pinyin xiàn, simplified 馅)

1. (Advanced Mandarin) filling (for dumplings etc.)

References

• 1985, Jingrong (ed.) Wu, The Pinyin CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (in Mandarin/English), Beijing, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, ISBN 0471867969:
• 2000, Jingmin (ed.) Shao, HSK Dictionary (HSK汉语水平考试词典) (in Mandarin/English), Shanghai: Huadong Teachers College Publishers, ISBN 7561720785:

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Vietnamese

Han character

餡 (hãm)