衍

衍 U+884D, 衍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-884D ← 行 [U+884C] CJK Unified Ideographs 衎 → [U+884E]

Translingual

Han character

衍 (radical 144 行+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹人水一弓 (HOEMN), four-corner 2110₃, composition ⿻行氵)

References

• KangXi: page 1108, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34033
• Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 820, character 4
• Unihan data for U+884D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		衍

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (衍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
愆	*kʰran
衍	*lanʔ, *lans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lanʔ, *lans): semantic 行 + phonetic 水 (OC *qʰʷljilʔ, “water”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yán, yǎn (yan², yan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ, ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hin², jin², jin⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): ián

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yen²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛn³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yen³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hin², jin², jin⁵
    • Yale: hín, yín, yíhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hin², jin², jin⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: hin², yin², yin⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /hiːn³⁵/, /jiːn³⁵/, /jiːn¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ián
    • Tâi-lô: ián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iern
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɛn⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɛn⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /jiᴇn^X/, /jiᴇn^H/▼

Rime
Character	衍	衍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	以淺切	于線切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇnX/	/jiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛnX/	/jiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/jænX/	/jænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jianX/	/jianH/
Li Rong	/iɛnX/	/iɛnH/
Wang Li	/jĭɛnX/	/jĭɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛnX/	/i̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎn	yàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*N-q(r)anʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lanʔ/, /*lans/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	衍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ yenX ›
Old Chinese	/*N-q(r)anʔ/
English	overflow
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	衍	衍
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14376	14377
Phonetic component	衍	衍
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	演
Old Chinese	/*lanʔ/	/*lans/

Definitions

衍

1. overflow, spill over, spread out

Compounds

• 衍生物

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Japanese

Kanji

衍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)
• Kun: はびこる (habikoru), しく (shiku), あまり (amari)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: diễn

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