亃

亃 U+4E83, 亃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E83 ← 亂 [U+4E82] CJK Unified Ideographs 亄 → [U+4E84]

Translingual

Han character

亃 (Kangxi radical 5, 乙+12, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火手山 (FQU), four-corner 9221₀, composition ⿰粦乚)

1. name of a kind of animal

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 85, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 215
• Dae Jaweon: page 173, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 58, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4E83

Chinese

trad.		亃
simp. #		亃
alternative forms		𠄈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 粦
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (粦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
潾	*rriːn, *rin
膦	*renʔ
憐	*riːn
燐	*rin, *rins
鄰	*rin
轔	*rin, *rins
嶙	*rin, *rinʔ
粼	*rin, *rins
磷	*rin, *rins
疄	*rin, *rins
麟	*rin
鱗	*rin
璘	*rin
翷	*rin
瞵	*rin, *rins
獜	*rin, *reːŋ
驎	*rin
鏻	*rin, *rins, *reːŋ
繗	*rin
僯	*rinʔ
橉	*rinʔ, *rins
撛	*rinʔ, *rins
遴	*rins
粦	*rins
甐	*rins

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǐn (lin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǐn
    • Wade–Giles: lin³
    • Yale: lǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liin
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leon⁵
    • Yale: léuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn¹³/

Definitions

亃

1. worried

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìn, lín (lin⁴, lin²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ, ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìn
    • Wade–Giles: lin⁴
    • Yale: lìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linn
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lín
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lín
    • Wade–Giles: lin²
    • Yale: lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lin
    • Palladius: линь (linʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leon⁶
    • Yale: leuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn²²/

Definitions

亃

1. (Chinese mythology) a kind of swine-like beast with a yellow body and a white tail

References

• “亃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• zi.tools
• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 62

Japanese

Kanji

亃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): りん (rin)
• Kun: うれる (ureru)