鼐

鼐 U+9F10, 鼐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F10 ← 鼏 [U+9F0F] CJK Unified Ideographs 鼑 → [U+9F11]

Translingual

Han character

鼐 (radical 206 鼎+2, 15 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸月山中 (NSBUL), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿱乃鼎)

References

• KangXi: page 1525, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48318
• Dae Jaweon: page 2061, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4741, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9F10

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		鼐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鼐
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (乃) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
乃	*nɯːʔ
鼐	*nɯːʔ, *nɯːs
疓	*njɯːʔ
奶	*rneːlʔ
仍	*njɯŋ
艿	*njɯŋ
辸	*njɯŋ
礽	*njɯŋ
扔	*njɯŋ, *njɯŋs
芿	*njɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *nɯːʔ, *nɯːs): phonetic 乃 (OC *nɯːʔ) + semantic 鼎.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nài (nai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: nài
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: nai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nay
    • IPA ^(key): /naɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: naai⁵
    • Yale: náaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: nai⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /nɑːi̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /nʌi^X/, /nʌi^H/▼

Rime
Character	鼐	鼐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	奴亥切	奴代切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nʌiX/	/nʌiH/
Pan Wuyun	/nəiX/	/nəiH/
Shao Rongfen	/nɒiX/	/nɒiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nəjX/	/nəjH/
Li Rong	/nᴀiX/	/nᴀiH/
Wang Li	/nɒiX/	/nɒiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/nɑ̆iX/	/nɑ̆iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nǎi	nài

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*nɯːʔ/, /*nɯːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鼐	鼐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9338	9339
Phonetic component	乃	乃
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	乃	耐
Old Chinese	/*nɯːʔ/	/*nɯːs/
Notes	同迺古文

Definitions

鼐

1. a big ding (ancient three-legged bronze cauldron for cooking)

Compounds

• 烹飪鼎鼐／烹饪鼎鼐
• 調和鼎鼐／调和鼎鼐

• 鼎鼐 (dǐngnài)
• 鼎鼐臣

• 鼎鼐調和／鼎鼐调和

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Japanese

Kanji

鼐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. incense tripod

Readings

• Goon: どう (dō), のう (nō)
• Kan’on: だい (dai), ない (nai)
• Kun: かなえ (kanae), おおかなえ (ōkanae)

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Korean

Hanja

鼐 • (nae) (hangeul 내, revised nae, McCune-Reischauer nae, Yale nay)

1. incense tripod

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Vietnamese

Han character

鼐 (nãi)

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