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U+96C1, 雁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96C1

[U+96C0]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+96C2]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 172, +4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一人人土 (MOOG), four-corner 71214, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1364, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41960
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1868, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4093, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+96C1

Chinese

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trad. /
simp.
alternative forms
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Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ŋraːns) : phonetic (OC *hŋaːnʔ, *hŋaːns) + semantic + semantic .

Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-n (goose) (tentatively reconstructed); cognate with Tibetan ངང་པ (ngang pa), Burmese ငန်း (ngan:).

Related to (OC *ŋaːl, “domestic goose”); both and likely reflect an earlier liquid final (Schuessler, 2007; cf. Baxter and Sagart's reconstruction). Alternatively, it may derive from with nominalizing suffix *-n, but this Chinese-internal derivation is problematic in light of the cognates in Tibeto-Burman (Schuessler, 2007; Alves, 2015b); but see Hill (2019) also, as noted in the etymology of .

Possible relationship with Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (goose) has been noted by some (Mayrhofer, 1976; Alves, 2015b).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • 3nge - vernacular;
  • 2i - literary.
Note: ngai5 - only in 雁鵝.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (69)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter ngaenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋˠanH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋaɨnH/
Li
Rong
/ŋanH/
Wang
Li
/ŋanH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ngaan6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngænH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.[ŋ]ˁrar-s/
English wild goose

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 14436
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋraːns/
Notes

Definitions

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  1. wild goose (as opposed to a domesticated goose (é)) (Classifier: m c)
  2. Synonym of (é)
  3. Alternative form of (yàn, fake; false)

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (がん) (gan)
  • Vietnamese: nhạn ()

Others:

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. wild goose

Readings

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  • Go-on: げん (gen)
  • Kan-on: がん (gan)
  • Kun: かり (kari, )
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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
がん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi
Alternative spelling

From Middle Chinese (ngænH, wild goose).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(がん) or (ガン) (gan

  1. wild goose
Usage notes
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  • As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
かり
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Said to be from the cry of a wild goose.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(かり) (kari

  1. wild goose
  2. cry of a wild goose
  3. (colloquial) glans penis
Derived terms
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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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(eumhun 기러기 (gireogi an))

  1. wild goose, whose skein flies in wedge or cuneiform, in contrast with (거위 아, geowi-a), the domestic goose that would not fly at all.

Compounds

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  • 家雁 (가안, ga-an) domestic goose, literally, house goose.

See also

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: nhạn

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