筵

筵 U+7B75, 筵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B75 ← 筴 [U+7B74] CJK Unified Ideographs 筶 → [U+7B76]

Translingual

Han character

筵 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓大一 (HNKM) or 竹弓大女 (HNKV), four-corner 8840₁, composition ⿱𥫗延)

1. bamboo mat
2. feast, banquet

References

• KangXi: page 886, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26080
• Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2967, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7B75

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		筵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (延) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
唌	l'aːn
誕	l'aːnʔ
蜑	l'aːnʔ
蛋	l'aːns
硟	slan, *l̥ʰjans
涎	ljan, *lans
脠	l̥ʰan, *hljan
梴	l̥ʰan
鋋	ɦljan, *lan
埏	hljan, *lan
挻	hljan
鯅	hljan
延	lan, *lans
筵	lan
蜒	lan
狿	lan, *lans
郔	lan
綖	lan
莚	lan, *lans

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yán (yan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yen²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin⁴
    • Yale: yìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jiːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /jiᴇn/▼

Rime
Character	筵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以然切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/jæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jian/
Li Rong	/iɛn/
Wang Li	/jĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*la[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lan/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	筵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ yen ›
Old Chinese	/*la[n]/
English	bamboo mat
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	筵
Reading #	1/1
No.	14257
Phonetic component	延
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	延
Old Chinese	/*lan/

Definitions

筵

1. banquet; feast
2. bamboo mat

Compounds

• 几筵
• 別筵／别筵
• 喜筵
• 天下沒有不散的筵席／天下没有不散的筵席
• 巹筵
• 暖房筵
• 歌筵
• 法筵
• 淨筵／净筵
• 玳瑁筵

• 瓊筵／琼筵
• 瓜果筵
• 盛筵
• 盛筵必散
• 盛筵易散
• 盛筵難再／盛筵难再
• 筵宴 (yányàn)
• 筵席 (yánxí)
• 筵席稅／筵席税

• 筵會／筵会 (yánhuì)
• 素筵
• 經筵／经筵
• 經筵講官／经筵讲官
• 設席張筵／设席张筵
• 賓之初筵／宾之初筵
• 酒筵 (jiǔyán)
• 開筵／开筵
• 香筵

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Japanese

Kanji

筵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)
• Kun: むしろ (mushiro)

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Korean

Hanja

筵 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筵 (diên)

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