鴳

See also: 𫛩

鴳 U+9D33, 鴳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D33 ← 鴲 [U+9D32] CJK Unified Ideographs 鴴 → [U+9D34]

Translingual

Han character

鴳 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 十女竹日火 (JVHAF) or 難十女竹日 (XJVHA), four-corner 3742₇, composition ⿰安鳥)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1487, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46852
• Dae Jaweon: page 2019, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4633, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9D33

Chinese

trad.		鴳
simp.		𫛩
alternative forms		鷃／𮭨

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 *qraːns) : phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ha:r (“fowl, chicken”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aan³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
    • Wade–Giles: yen⁴
    • Yale: yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: aan³
    • Yale: aan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: an³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːn³³/

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

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• Middle Chinese: 'aenH

Rime
Character	鴳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	烏澗切
Baxter	'aenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠanH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚanH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɐnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔaɨnH/
Li Rong	/ʔanH/
Wang Li	/anH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔanH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	aan3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤ<r>a[r]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qraːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鴳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yàn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔænH ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁ<r>a[r]-s/
English	a kind of quail
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	鴳
Reading #	1/1
No.	21
Phonetic component	安
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	晏
Old Chinese	/*qraːns/

Definitions

鴳

1. (archaic) quail

   • 斥鴳笑之曰：「彼且奚適也？」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     斥𫛩笑之曰：「彼且奚适也？」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Chì ān xiào zhī yuē: “Bǐ qiě xī shì yě?” [Pinyin]

     A quail by the side of a marsh laughed at it, and said, 'Where is it going to?'

2. Only used in 鴳雀／𫛩雀 (“quail”).

Japanese

Kanji

鴳

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. quail

Readings

• On (unclassified): あん (an)、えん (en)
• Kun: うずら (uzura)

Korean

Hanja

鴳 (eum 안 (an))

1. quail

Vietnamese

Han character

鴳: Hán Nôm readings: yến

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References

• Nom Foundation