衍

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 行 + phonetic 水 (“water”)

Han character

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

1. overflow, spill over, spread out

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

衍 (Jyutping hin2, jin2, jin5, Yale hin2, yin2, yin5)

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Japanese

Kanji

衍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: 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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Mandarin

Hanzi

衍 (Pinyin yán (yan2), yǎn (yan3), Wade-Giles yen², yen³) (Cantonese: Yale : yin5)

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Compounds

• 衍生物

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Vietnamese

Han character

衍 (diễn)

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