隕

See also: 殒 and 陨

隕 U+9695, 隕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9695 ← 隔 [U+9694] CJK Unified Ideographs 隖 → [U+9696]

Translingual

Han character

隕 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+10, 13 strokes, Cangjie input 弓中口月金 (NLRBC), four-corner 7628₆, composition ⿰阝員)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1358, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41785
• Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4151, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9695

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 隕
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
員	*ɢon, *ɢun
圓	*ɢon
塤	*qʰon
損	*sqʰuːnʔ
縜	*ɢun
隕	*ɢunʔ
殞	*ɢunʔ
溳	*ɢunʔ, *ɢun
磒	*ɢunʔ
霣	*ɢunʔ
愪	*ɢunʔ, *ɢun
勛	*qʰun
鄖	*ɢun
篔	*ɢun
貟	*ɢun, *ɢuns
韻	*ɢʷɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢunʔ): semantic 𨸏 + phonetic 員 (OC *ɢon, *ɢun).

Pronunciation 1

trad.		隕
simp.		陨
alternative forms		磒／𬒍 霣／𫕥

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔn (yun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁵
• Eastern Min (BUC): ūng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ong³ / uong³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǔn
    • Wade–Giles: yün³
    • Yale: yǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeun
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wan⁵
    • Yale: wáhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn¹³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ūng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ong³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: eông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: uong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uoŋ³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ún
    • Tâi-lô: ún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uon
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /un⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /un⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /un⁵⁵⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: hwinX

Rime
Character	隕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	眞 (45)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	于敏切
Baxter	hwinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiuɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚinX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦjinX/
Li Rong	/ɣjuĕnX/
Wang Li	/ɣǐĕnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷrə[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢunʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǔn
Middle Chinese	‹ hwinX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷrə[n]ʔ/
English	fall down
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	隕
Reading #	1/1
No.	16204
Phonetic component	員
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	殞
Old Chinese	/*ɢunʔ/

Definitions

隕

1. to fall
2. (literary) to destroy
3. (literary) to lose
4. (obsolete) alternative form of 殞 / 殒 (yǔn, “to die”)

Compounds

• 隕星 / 陨星 (yǔnxīng)
• 隕滅 / 陨灭 (yǔnmiè)
• 隕石 / 陨石 (yǔnshí)
• 隕落 / 陨落 (yǔnluò)
• 隕鐵 / 陨铁 (yǔntiě)

Pronunciation 2

trad.		隕
simp.		陨

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuán (yuan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuán
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuán
    • Wade–Giles: yüan²
    • Yale: ywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴
    • Yale: yùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/

Definitions

隕

1. (obsolete) alternative form of 員 / 员 (“surroundings”)

References

• “隕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “陨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 296.
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Japanese

Kanji

隕

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to fall
2. to die

Readings

• Go-on: いん (in)^{←ゐん (win, historical)}
• Kan-on: いん (in)^{←ゐん (win, historical)}
• On: えん (en)
• Kun: おちる (ochiru, 隕ちる)、おとす (otosu, 隕とす)、しぬ (shinu, 隕ぬ)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
隕
いん Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

Compounds

• 隕石
• 隕鉄
• 隕命
• 隕落

Affix

隕(いん) • (in) ^{←ゐん (win)?}

1. fall; fall from the sky to the ground

Derived terms

• 隕(いん)石(せき) (inseki): meteorite

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).

Hanja

隕 (eumhun 떨어질 운 (tteoreojil un))

1. hanja form^? of 운 (“fall”)

Compounds

• 운석 (隕石, unseok, “meteorite”)
• 운성 (隕星, unseong, “meteorite (one that has not fallen to the ground)”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

隕: Hán Nôm readings: vẫn

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References

• Nom Foundation