蜿蜒

Chinese

		to move (as snake)
trad. (蜿蜒)		蜿	蜒
simp. #(蜿蜒)		蜿	蜒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wānyán

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢ ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹ jin⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oan-iân / oán-iân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wānyán
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢ ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wanyán
    • Wade–Giles: wan¹-yen²
    • Yale: wān-yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uanyan
    • Palladius: ваньянь (vanʹjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵⁵ jɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun¹ jin⁴
    • Yale: yūn yìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹ jin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun¹ yin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵ jiːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oan-iân
    • Tâi-lô: uan-iân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oan'ieen
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan³³ iɛn²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán-iân
    • Tâi-lô: uán-iân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oafn'ieen
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iɛn¹³/

Verb

蜿蜒

1. to wriggle
2. to wind; to zigzag; to meander

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
蜿	蜒
えん Hyōgai	えん Hyōgai
on'yomi

Etymology

/weɴeɴ/ → /eɴeɴ/

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 蜿蜒 (MC 'jwon|'wan|'jwonX yen, literally “wriggle, wind + stretch for a long distance”). Compare modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin reading wānyán.

Adjective

蜿(えん)蜒(えん) • (en'en) ^{←ゑんえん (wen'en)?†}-tari (adnominal 蜿(えん)蜒(えん)とした (en'en to shita) or 蜿(えん)蜒(えん)たる (en'en taru), adverbial 蜿(えん)蜒(えん)と (en'en to) or 蜿(えん)蜒(えん)として (en'en to shite))

1. meandering, winding
   • 1905: 韓國誌 (Kankoku-shi, “Korea Chronicle”), 農商務省 (Nōshōmushō, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce) (in Japanese), Tōkyō (text here):

     …此村(このむら)ヨリ河(かわ)ノ谷(たに)ハ五里二(ごりに)十町(じゅうちょう)ノ間(あいだ)蜿蜒(えんえん)タル峽(きょう)地(ち)ヲ形(かたち)ツクリ…

     …kono mura yori kawa no tani wa go ri nijū chō no aida en'en taru kyōchi o katachi tsukuri…

     ...from this village, the river valley takes the form of a meandering gorge for a distance of five li and twenty chō [approx. 22km]...