沿

See also: 㳂

沿 U+2F8FC, 沿 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8FC ← 𣲼 [U+2F8FB] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 泍 → [U+2F8FD]

Translingual

Japanese	沿
Simplified	沿
Traditional	沿

Alternative forms

Due to Han unification, different forms of the character are given the same codepoint. In simplified Chinese, Korean Hanja and Vietnamese Chữ Nôm, the upper right component is written 𠘧/几 to give 沿, which is the form found in the Kangxi dictionary. In traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan), the upper right component is written 儿 to give 沿. In Japanese shinjitai, the upper right component is written 八 to give 沿.

Han character

沿 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水金口 (ECR) or 水竹弓口 (EHNR), four-corner 3816₀, composition ⿰氵⿱𠘧口(GKV) or ⿰氵⿱⿰丿㇄口(HT) or ⿰氵㕣(J))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 614, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17260
• Dae Jaweon: page 1008, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1590, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6CBF

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Chinese

trad.		沿
simp. #		沿
alternative forms		㳂

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
船	*ɦljon
沿	*lon
鉛	*lon

Etymology 1

Possibly related to Proto-Tai, compare Thai เลียน (liian, “to mimic”), or from Sino-Tibetan; compare Mizo zeelᴸ (“to walk along, a road along a hillside”) and Jingpho mə³¹-jan³³ (“flow along a cliff”) (Schuessler, 2007); nevertheless, Schuessler found Middle Chinese descendant's rounded element difficult to reconcile phonologically with these items and proposes also a derivation from 由 (OC *lɯw).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yán (yan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ing⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yán
    • Wade–Giles: yen²
    • Yale: yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴
    • Yale: yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân
    • Tâi-lô: iân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ieen
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɛn¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ing⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: îng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 沿
Mandarin	Beijing	/ian³⁵/
	Harbin	/ian²⁴/ 炕～兒 /ian⁵³/ 江～兒
	Tianjin	/ian⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/iã⁴²/
	Qingdao	/iã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ian⁴²/
	Xi'an	/iã²⁴/
	Xining	/iã²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ian⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/iɛ̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ian⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/iɛn²¹³/
	Chengdu	/yan³¹/
	Guiyang	/ian²¹/
	Kunming	/iɛ̃³¹/
	Nanjing	/ien²⁴/
	Hefei	/iĩ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ie¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ie̞¹³/
	Hohhot	/ie⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦi²³/
	Suzhou	/ɦiɪ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦyõ²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ji³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/ie⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/iɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/yẽ¹³/
	Xiangtan	/yẽ¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ȵyɵn⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/ian¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/ʒen¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jyn²¹/
	Nanning	/yn²¹/
	Hong Kong	/jyn²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/ian³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/yoŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/yiŋ³³/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/iŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zin³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ywen

Rime
Character	沿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	與專切
Baxter	ywen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/juæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwian/
Li Rong	/iuɛn/
Wang Li	/jĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lon/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lon/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ ywen ›
Old Chinese	/*lon/
English	go along (a river); follow
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	沿
Reading #	1/1
No.	14280
Phonetic component	沿
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	沿
Old Chinese	/*lon/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 沿

1. to follow a course, go along

   See also: 沿著／沿着

2. to continue or hand down

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 沿 – see 檐 (“eaves of a house; brim; rim; edge”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 檐).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

沿

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kun: そう (sou, 沿う, Jōyō)^{←そふ (sofu, 沿ふ, historical)}

Etymology

Kanji in this term
沿
えん Grade: 6
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 沿 (MC ywen).

Affix

沿(えん) • (en) 

1. follow; go along

Derived terms

• 沿(えん)岸(がん) (engan): coast, shore

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Korean

Hanja

沿 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 沿 (duyên)

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