安
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Translingual[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
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Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 + 女. (A house 宀 with a woman 女 = contentment)
Han character[edit]
安 (radical 40 宀+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十女 (JV), four-corner 30404, composition ⿱宀女)
Derived characters[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
- (safe): 危
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 282, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7072
- Dae Jaweon: page 552, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 913, character 9
- Unihan data for U+5B89
Chinese[edit]
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安 | |
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄢ
- Wade-Giles: an1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
- IPA (key): /ˀa̠n⁵⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄠ
- Wade-Giles: yao1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iau
- IPA (key): /i̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˋ
- Wade-Giles: yao4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yaw
- IPA (key): /i̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: on1, ngon1
- Yale: ōn, ngōn
- Cantonese Pinyin: on1, ngon1
- IPA (key): /ɔːn⁵⁵/, /ŋɔːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ôn
- IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /on²⁴/
- Romanisations:
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: an
- Tâi-lô: an
- Phofsit Daibuun: afn
- IPA (Taipei): /an⁴⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /an³⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (安, reconstructed) | ||||||
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| Character (安), Pronunciation 1/1 | ||||||
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Initial: 影 (34) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 烏寒切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /ʔɑn/ | /ʔɑn/ | /ʔɑn/ | /ʔɑn/ | /ʔan/ | /ɑn/ | /ʔɑn/ |
| Old Chinese pronunciation (安, reconstructed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 安 | ān | ‹ ʔan › | /*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/ | peace(ful) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 安 | ān | ‹ ʔan › | /*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/ | how | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 安 | ān | ‹ ʔan › | /*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/ | 安息 Ānxī (Iranian country in the western regions, W. Hàn; from Aršaka = Arsaces, founder of the Arsacid dynasty) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:
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| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
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Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 安 | 11 | 安 | 元 | 1 | 安 | /*qaːn/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definitions[edit]
安
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Compounds[edit]
Derived terms
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
安
- (An) Peace, peacefulness.
- (Yasui) Cheap.
Readings[edit]
- Goon: あん (an)
- Kan’on: あん (an)
- Kun: やすい (yasui), やすらか (yasuraka), やすんじる (yasunjiru), いずくんぞ (izukunzo)
- Nanori: あ (a)
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
安 • (an) (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an)
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Compounds[edit]
Vietnamese[edit]
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