鞍

See also: 鞌

Translingual

Han character

鞍 (Kangxi radical 177, 革+6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿十十女 (TJJV), four-corner 4354₄, composition ⿰革安)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1387, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42815
• Dae Jaweon: page 1902, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4335, character 8
• Unihan data for U+978D

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Chinese

trad.		鞍
simp. #		鞍

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
安	*qaːn
鞍	*qaːn
鞌	*qaːn
侒	*qaːn
按	*qaːns
案	*qaːns
洝	*qaːns
荌	*qaːns
晏	*qaːns, *qraːns
鴳	*qraːns
騴	*qraːns
鷃	*qraːns
頞	*qaːd
胺	*qaːd
咹	*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːn) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 革 (“leather”) + 安 (“secure”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ān (an¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): on¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ôn
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): oaⁿ / an

  (Teochew, Peng'im): uan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ān
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: an
    • Wade–Giles: an¹
    • Yale: ān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: on¹
    • Yale: ōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: on¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: on¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːn⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: on´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: on¹
    • Sinological IPA: /on²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oaⁿ / an
    • Tâi-lô: uann / an
    • Phofsit Daibuun: voaf, afn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uã⁴⁴/, /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uã³³/, /an³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uã⁴⁴/, /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uã⁴⁴/, /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uã⁴⁴/, /an⁴⁴/

Note:

• oaⁿ - vernacular;
• an - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: uan¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uaⁿ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ũã³³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鞍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ān
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔan ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]ˁa[n]/
English	[place name]
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	鞍
Reading #	1/1
No.	12
Phonetic component	安
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	安
Old Chinese	/*qaːn/
Notes	鞌字注或體

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鞍

1. saddle

References

• “鞍”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

鞍

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Go-on: あん (an)
• Kan-on: あん (an)
• Kun: くら (kura, 鞍)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鞍
くら Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Noun

鞍(くら) • (kura) 

1. saddle

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鞍
あん Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 鞍.

Affix

鞍(あん) • (an) 

1. saddle

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Korean

Hanja

鞍 (eum 안 (an))

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Compounds

• 鞍裝 (안장, anjang, “saddle”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鞍: Hán Nôm readings: yên, an

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