蒽

蒽 U+84BD, 蒽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84BD ← 蒼 [U+84BC] CJK Unified Ideographs 蒾 → [U+84BE]

Translingual

Han character

蒽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿田大心 (TWKP), four-corner 4433₆, composition ⿱艹恩)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1050, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31629
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3263, character 18
• Unihan data for U+84BD

Chinese

trad.		蒽
simp. #		蒽

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 恩 (OC *qɯːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ēn (en¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: en
    • Wade–Giles: ên¹
    • Yale: ēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: en
    • Palladius: энь (enʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jan¹
    • Yale: yān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn⁵⁵/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English anthracene.

Definitions

蒽

2. (organic chemistry) anthracene

Etymology 2

Definitions

蒽

2. ^‡ a kind of grass

Japanese

Kanji

蒽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. a kind of grass

Readings

• Go-on: おん (on)
• Kan-on: おん (on)