爓

Translingual

Han character

爓 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 火日弓難 (FANX), four-corner 9782₀, composition ⿰火閻)

1. flame
2. brilliant, blazing

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 687, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19574
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2247, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7213

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		爓

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
萏	*l'oːmʔ
窞	*l'oːmʔ
惂	*kʰloːmʔ
輡	*kʰloːmʔ
錎	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
埳	*kʰloːmʔ
臽	*kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
淊	*ɡloːmʔ, *qroːm, *qroːms, *lomʔ
欿	*ɡloːmʔ
蜭	*ɡloːmʔ, *ɡluːms
啗	*l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
鵮	*ʔr'oːm, *kʰroːm, *kʰroːms
餡	*ɡroːms
陷	*ɡroːms
爓	*ljom, *loms
諂	*l̥ʰomʔ
讇	*l̥ʰomʔ
閻	*lom
焰	*loms
壛	*lom
櫩	*lom
燄	*lomʔ
掐	*kʰroːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim⁶

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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: jim⁶
    • Yale: yihm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm²²/

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• Middle Chinese: zjem, yemH

Rime
Character	爓	爓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	鹽 (153)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	徐鹽切	以贍切
Baxter	zjem	yemH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziᴇm/	/jiᴇmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɛm/	/jiɛmH/
Shao Rongfen	/zjæm/	/jæmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ziam/	/jiamH/
Li Rong	/ziɛm/	/iɛmH/
Wang Li	/zĭɛm/	/jĭɛmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯ɛm/	/i̯ɛmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xián	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cim4	jim6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[sə-l][ə]m/, /*[ɢ]om-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljom/, /*loms/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	爓	爓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xún	yàn
Middle Chinese	‹ zim ›	‹ yemH ›
Old Chinese	/*[sə-l][ə]m/	/*[ɢ]om-s/
English	sacrifice of boiled meat	brightness
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	爓	爓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13561	13569
Phonetic component	臽	臽
Rime group	談	談
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	燅	豔
Old Chinese	/*ljom/	/*loms/
Notes	同燖

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

爓

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. flame

Readings

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)
From Middle Chinese 爓 (MC yemH):

• Go-on: えん (en)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えん (en)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kun: ほのお (honō)^{←ほのほ (fonofo, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 爓 (MC zjem):

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)^{←ぜん (zen, historical)←ぜむ (zemu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: せん (sen)^{←せん (sen, historical)←せむ (semu, ancient)}