鯤
Appearance
See also: 鲲
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Translingual
[edit]Han character
[edit]鯤 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓火日心心 (NFAPP), four-corner 26311, composition ⿰魚昆)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1473, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46247
- Dae Jaweon: page 2005, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4696, character 1
- Unihan data for U+9BE4
Chinese
[edit]trad. | 鯤 | |
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simp. | 鲲 | |
alternative forms | 鵾/鹍 鰥/鳏 𩽞 𩻋 |
Glyph origin
[edit]Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *kuːn) : semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 昆 (OC *kuːn).
Etymology
[edit]- “fish roe”
- Related to 昆 (OC *kuːn, “descendants”) (Ye, 2014). See there for more.
- “kun (sea monster)”
- Perhaps related to 鵾 (“large bird”) (Liu, 1999).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): kŏng
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1kuen
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣ
- Tongyong Pinyin: kun
- Wade–Giles: kʻun1
- Yale: kwūn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuen
- Palladius: кунь (kunʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: kwan1 / gwan1
- Yale: kwān / gwān
- Cantonese Pinyin: kwan1 / gwan1
- Guangdong Romanization: kuen1 / guen1
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʷʰɐn⁵⁵/, /kʷɐn⁵⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: kun1
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰun³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khûn
- Hakka Romanization System: kunˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: kun1
- Sinological IPA: /kʰun²⁴/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: kŏng
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʰouŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: kwon
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*kuːn/
Definitions
[edit]鯤
- (literary) fish roe; fry; spawn
- Alternative form: 卵
- 且夫山不槎蘗,澤不伐夭,魚禁鯤鮞 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Guoyu, circa 4th century BCE
- Qiěfú shān bù chá bò, zé bù fá yāo, yú jìn kūn ér [Pinyin]
- Moreover, the mountains do not fell the cork trees; the marshes do not cut down the young shoots; the fish protect their roe and fry
且夫山不槎蘗,泽不伐夭,鱼禁鲲鲕 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (Chinese mythology) kun, a large fish that transforms into a roc (鵬/鹏 (péng))
Compounds
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “鯤”, 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–
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05981
Japanese
[edit]Kanji
[edit]鯤
- large mythical fish
- roe
Readings
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Kanji in this term |
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鯤 |
こん Hyōgai |
on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 鯤 (MC kwon).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (Chinese mythology) a mythological giant fish that is several thousand 里 (ri, “leagues”) long and that lives in the northern seas
References
[edit]- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
Korean
[edit]Hanja
[edit]鯤 • (gon) (hangeul 곤, revised gon, McCune–Reischauer kon, Yale kon)
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