宴

Translingual

Han character

宴 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十日女 (JAV), four-corner 3040₄, composition ⿱宀妟)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 286, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7166
• Dae Jaweon: page 565, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 933, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BB4

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Chinese

trad.		宴
simp. #		宴

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
堰	*qrens, *qanʔ, *qans
躽	*qrens, *qeːnʔ
宴	*qeːnʔ, *qeːns
蝘	*qeːnʔ, *qanʔ
偃	*qanʔ
郾	*qanʔ, *qans
鶠	*qanʔ
褗	*qanʔ, *qans
匽	*qanʔ
鼴	*qanʔ
鰋	*qanʔ
揠	*qreːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qeːnʔ, *qeːns) : semantic 宀 + phonetic 妟 ().

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yen / yan
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iàn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ang³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
    • Wade–Giles: yen⁴
    • Yale: yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin³
    • Yale: yin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yen
    • Hakka Romanization System: ien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯en⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yan
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ian
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯an⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iàn
    • Tâi-lô: iàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iexn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɛn²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɛn²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɛn¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ang³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: àng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aŋ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'enX, 'enH

Rime
Character	宴	宴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	於殄切	於甸切
Baxter	'enX	'enH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔenX/	/ʔenH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔenX/	/ʔenH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛnX/	/ʔɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛnX/	/ʔɛnH/
Li Rong	/ʔenX/	/ʔenH/
Wang Li	/ienX/	/ienH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔienX/	/ʔienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎn	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin2	jin3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤe[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qeːnʔ/, /*qeːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	宴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yàn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔenH ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁe[n]-s/
English	feast (n.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	宴	宴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14380	14383
Phonetic component	妟	妟
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蝘	宴
Old Chinese	/*qeːnʔ/	/*qeːns/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 宴

1. banquet; feast

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Japanese

Kanji

宴

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kun: うたげ (utage, 宴); たのしむ (tanoshimu, 宴しむ)

Compounds

Compounds

• 茗宴(めいえん) (meien): tea party

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
宴
うたげ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alteration of 打ち上げ (uchiage, “finishing of a performance, banquet at the finishing of a performance”).

Noun

宴(うたげ) • (utage) 

1. party, banquet, feast

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
宴
えん Grade: S
on'yomi

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 宴 (ʔen^H, “banquet, feast”).

Noun

宴(えん) • (en) 

1. party, banquet, feast

Affix

宴(えん) • (en) 

1. party, banquet, feast

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Korean

Hanja

宴 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 宴 (yến)

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