隕

See also: 殒 and 陨

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

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Chinese

trad.		隕
simp.		陨

Glyph origin

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔn (yun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴ / wan⁵
• 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: jyun⁴ / wan⁵
    • Yale: yùhn / wáhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴ / wan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴ / wen⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹/, /wɐn¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ún
    • Tâi-lô: ún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uon
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /un⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /un⁴¹/
    • 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/
Bernard 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

(deprecated template usage) 隕

1. fall, slip
2. let fall
3. die

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Japanese

Kanji

隕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
隕
いん Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).

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

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Korean

Hanja

隕 • (un, won) (hangeul 운, 원, revised un, won, McCune–Reischauer un, wŏn, Yale wun, wen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

隕: Hán Nôm readings: vẫn

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References

• Nom Foundation