鄢

Translingual

Han character

鄢 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一火弓中 (MFNL), four-corner 1732₇, composition ⿰焉阝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1277, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39614
• Dae Jaweon: page 1776, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3791, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9122

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		鄢

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嘕	*qʰran
嫣	*qʰran, *qran, *qranʔ, *qans
焉	*qran, *ɢan, *qan
鄢	*qran, *qanʔ, *qans
蔫	*qran, *qan
漹	*ɢan, *qans
傿	*qans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans) : phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan) + semantic 阝 (“city”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yān (yan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yān
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yan
    • Wade–Giles: yen¹
    • Yale: yān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ian
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin¹
    • Yale: yīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鄢

1. name of a district in Henan

   夏，五月，鄭伯克段于鄢。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   夏，五月，郑伯克段于鄢。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg

   Xià, wǔyuè, Zhèng Bó kè Duàn yú Yān. [Pinyin]

   In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.

2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

鄢

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en), おん (on)

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Korean

Hanja

鄢 • (eon) (hangeul 언, revised eon, McCune–Reischauer ŏn, Yale en)

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