鼆

Translingual

Han character

鼆 (Kangxi radical 205, 黽+10, 23 strokes, cangjie input 月金口難山 (BCRXU), four-corner 7781₇, composition ⿰冥黽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1524, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48300
• Dae Jaweon: page 2060, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4770, character 23
• Unihan data for U+9F06

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		鼆

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
澠	*mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *ɦbljɯŋ
黽	*mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *mreːŋʔ
僶	*mliŋʔ
繩	*ɦbljɯŋ
譝	*ɦbljɯŋ
憴	*ɦbljɯŋ
鱦	*ɦbljɯŋ, *ɦbljɯŋ, *b·lɯŋs, *mraːŋʔ
蠅	*b·lɯŋ
鄳	*mraːŋ, *mraːŋʔ
鼆	*mreːŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máng (mang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máng
    • Wade–Giles: mang²
    • Yale: máng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mang
    • Palladius: ман (man)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁴
    • Yale: màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: meangX

Rime
Character	鼆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	武幸切
Baxter	meangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠɛŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚæŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/mɐŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məɨjŋX/
Li Rong	/mɛŋX/
Wang Li	/mæŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mæŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	měng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mreːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鼆
Reading #	1/1
No.	9177
Phonetic component	黽
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	䁅
Old Chinese	/*mreːŋʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鼆

1. murky; shadowy; tainted