湮

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湮 U+6E6E, 湮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E6E
← 湭
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 湯 →
湮 U+2F909, 湮
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F909
← 港
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 㴳 →

Translingual

Han character

湮 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水一田土 (EMWG), four-corner 31114, composition ⿰氵垔)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 638, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17873
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1045, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1671, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6E6E

Chinese

trad. 湮
simp. # 湮
alternative forms 洇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (垔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
黫 *qriːn
甄 *ken, *kin
薽 *ken, *kjin
籈 *ken, *kjin
煙 *qiːn
湮 *qiːn, *qin
堙 *qin
禋 *qin
闉 *qin
垔 *qin
陻 *qin
諲 *qin
歅 *qin
鄄 *kʷens

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qiːn, *qin) : semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 垔 (OC *qin).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 湮 湮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 眞 (43) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III IV
Fanqie 於眞切 烏前切
Baxter 'jin 'en
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔiɪn/ /ʔen/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔin/ /ʔen/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔjen/ /ʔɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔin/ /ʔɛn/
Li
Rong 		/ʔiĕn/ /ʔen/
Wang
Li 		/ĭĕn/ /ien/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯ĕn/ /ʔien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yīn yān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jan1 jin1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 湮 湮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15193 15198
Phonetic
component 		垔 垔
Rime
group 		眞 眞
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		煙 因
Old
Chinese 		/*qiːn/ /*qin/

Definitions

湮

  1. (literary) to inundate; to sink; to bury; to cover up; to fall into oblivion
  2. (literary) to clog up; to block up; to stop

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 湮 – see 洇 (“to soak; to sink in; to blotch; to splotch”).
(This character is a variant form of 洇).

Japanese

Kanji

湮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. sink

Readings

Korean

Hanja

湮 • (in) (hangeul 인)

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Vietnamese

Han character

湮: Hán Nôm readings: yên

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References

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