泳

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

泳 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水戈弓水 (EINE), four-corner 3313₂, composition ⿰氵永)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 619, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17328
• Dae Jaweon: page 1014, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1595, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6CF3

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		泳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 泳
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
永	*ɢʷraŋʔ
栐	*ɢʷraŋʔ
泳	*ɢʷraŋs
詠	*ɢʷraŋs
咏	*ɢʷraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷraŋs) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 永 (OC *ɢʷraŋʔ).

Etymology

Possibly related to Thai ว่าย (wâai, “to swim”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 泳

1. to swim
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

泳

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to swim

Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)←ゐやう (wyau, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えい (ei, Jōyō)^{←ゑい (wei, historical)}
• Kun: およぐ (oyogu, 泳ぐ, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
泳
えい Grade: 3
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 泳 (MC hjwaengH).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

Affix

泳(えい) • (ei) ^{←ゑい (wei)?}

1. swim

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Korean

Hanja

泳 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

1. dive
2. swim

References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 泳

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Kunigami

Kanji

泳

• Kun: ういじゅん (泳じゅん, uijun)

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Okinawan

Kanji

泳

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: っゐーじゅん ('wījun, 泳じゅん)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 泳 (vịnh, vạnh)

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Yonaguni

Kanji

泳

• Kun: うく゚ん (泳く゚ん, ungun)