鰧

鰧 U+9C27, 鰧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9C27 ← 鰦 [U+9C26] CJK Unified Ideographs 鰨 → [U+9C28]

Translingual

Han character

鰧 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+10, 21 strokes, Cangjie input 月火手火 (BFQF) or 難難難月火 (XXXBF), composition ⿰月鮝(GT) or ⿸𰮤魚(J))

1. a kind of fish that is stout and bluish-gray color; has a big, flat head, big mouth and small eyes; usually stays in the bottom of the shallow sea, half buried in the muddy sand

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1476, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46387
• Dae Jaweon: page 2007, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2127, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9C27

Chinese

trad.		鰧
simp.		䲢
alternative forms		䲍 𩺭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
黱	*l'ɯːs
朕	*l'ɯmʔ
鰧	*l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ
螣	*l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːɡ
栚	*l'ɯmʔ
眹	*l'ɯnʔ
騰	*l'ɯːŋ
滕	*l'ɯːŋ
縢	*l'ɯːŋ
儯	*l'ɯːŋ
幐	*l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːŋs
藤	*l'ɯːŋ
謄	*l'ɯːŋ
膡	*l'ɯːŋ, *hljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
籐	*l'ɯːŋ
勝	*hljɯŋ, *hljɯŋs
蕂	*hljɯŋs
榺	*hljɯŋs
塍	*ɦljɯŋ
媵	*ljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
賸	*ɦljɯŋs, *lɯŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): téng (teng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tang⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: téng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: téng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻêng²
    • Yale: téng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: terng
    • Palladius: тэн (tɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tang⁴
    • Yale: tàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: teng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dong, drimX

Rime
Character	鰧	鰧
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	登 (129)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	徒登切	直稔切
Baxter	dong	drimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dəŋ/	/ɖˠiɪmX/
Pan Wuyun	/dəŋ/	/ɖᵚimX/
Shao Rongfen	/dəŋ/	/ȡiemX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəŋ/	/ɖjimX/
Li Rong	/dəŋ/	/ȡjəmX/
Wang Li	/dəŋ/	/ȡĭĕmX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱəŋ/	/ȡʱi̯əmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	téng	zhèn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tang4	zam6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯmʔ/, /*l'ɯːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鰧	鰧
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17111	17123
Phonetic component	朕	朕
Rime group	侵	蒸
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	朕	騰
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯmʔ/	/*l'ɯːŋ/
Notes		見山海經

Definitions

鰧

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References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 3), p. 247

Japanese

Kanji

鰧

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. A bottom-dwelling spiny fish, such as those in families Uranoscopidae and Synanceiidae.

Readings

• On (unclassified): じん (jin)、ちん (chin)、とう (tō)
• Kun: おこぜ (okoze, 鰧)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鰧
おこぜ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鰧 – see the following entry.

【おこぜ】 [noun] a stonefish (any fish of the family Synanceiidae) [from the mid-Muromachi period] [noun] (especially) a devil stinger (Inimicus japonicus) [noun] (figurative) an ugly woman [from 1801] [noun] synonym of いらむし (iramushi, “larvae of an oriental moth”) [from 1847] Alternative spelling 虎魚

(This term, 鰧, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Further reading

• “^▲鰧”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026