延

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 丿 + semantic 㢟

Han character

延 (radical 54 廴+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓大竹卜一 (NKHYM), 弓大竹卜女 (NKHYV), four-corner 1240₁, composition ⿺廴⿱丿止)

1. stretch, extend, delay, postpone, defer

Derived characters

• 誕 (诞)

References

• KangXi: page 352, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9569
• Dae Jaweon: page 666, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 404, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5EF6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

延 (Jyutping jin4, Yale yin4)

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Japanese

Kanji

延

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: えん (en)
• Kun: のびる (nobiru), のばす (nobasu)
• Nanori: のぶ (nobu)

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Korean

Hanja

延 (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn)

• 延世大學校 (Yonsei University)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

延 (Pinyin yán (yan2), Wade-Giles yen²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

延 (dang, dan, diên)