鄢

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鄢 U+9122, 鄢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9122
← 鄡
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鄣 →

Translingual

Han character

鄢 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一火弓中 (MFNL), four-corner 17327, composition ⿰焉阝)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1277, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39614
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1776, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3791, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+9122

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 鄢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (焉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嘕 *qʰran
嫣 *qʰran, *qran, *qranʔ, *qans
焉 *qran, *ɢan, *qan
鄢 *qran, *qanʔ, *qans
蔫 *qran, *qan
漹 *ɢan, *qans
傿 *qans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans) : phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan) + semantic 阝 (“city”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

鄢

  1. name of a district in Henan
    夏，五月，鄭伯克段于鄢。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    夏，五月，郑伯克段于鄢。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg
    Xià, wǔyuè, Zhèng Bó kè Duàn yú Yān.
    In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.
  2. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

鄢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): えん (en); おん (on)

Korean

Hanja

鄢 • (eon) (hangeul 언, revised eon, McCune–Reischauer ŏn, Yale en)

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