鯢

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See also: 鲵 and ⿰魚児
鯢 U+9BE2, 鯢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BE2
← 鯡
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鯣 →

Translingual

Traditional 鯢
Shinjitai
(extended) 		⿰魚児
Simplified 鲵

Han character

鯢 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓火竹難山 (NFHXU), four-corner 27317, composition ⿰魚兒)

  1. Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus, syn. Cryptobranchus japonicus)
  2. any salamander

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1472, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2004, character 43
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4696, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+9BE2

Chinese

trad. 鯢
simp. 鲵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
掜 *rŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
誽 *rŋeː
倪 *ŋeː
蜺 *ŋeː, *ŋeː
霓 *ŋeː, *ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳 *ŋeː
齯 *ŋeː
婗 *ŋeː
輗 *ŋeː
棿 *ŋeː
猊 *ŋeː
麑 *ŋeː
貎 *ŋeː
鯢 *ŋeː
兒 *ŋeː, *ŋje
觬 *ŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
堄 *ŋeːʔ, *ŋeːs
晲 *ŋeːʔ
睨 *ŋeːs
唲 *ŋje
隉 *ŋeːd
鶂 *ŋeːɡ
鬩 *ɦŋeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋeː) : semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Related to 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje, “child”)?”

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鯢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 五稽切
Baxter ngej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋei/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋei/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋɛj/
Li
Rong 		/ŋei/
Wang
Li 		/ŋiei/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ŋiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ngai4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鯢
Reading # 1/1
No. 2747
Phonetic
component 		兒
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		倪
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋeː/

Definitions

鯢

  1. giant salamander
  2. † female whale
  3. † small fish
  4. † Alternative form of 齯／𫠜 (ní)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 娃娃魚 (“giant salamander”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 鯢, 鯢魚, 人魚
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 大鯢
Taxonomic name 大鯢
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 娃娃魚
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 娃娃魚
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 娃娃魚
Southwestern Mandarin Guiyang 娃娃魚
Liuzhou 娃娃魚
Cantonese Hong Kong 娃娃魚
Huizhou Jixi 娃娃魚, 海狗魚
Jin Xinzhou 娃娃魚兒

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

⿰魚児

Kyūjitai

鯢

Kanji

鯢

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰魚児)

  1. (Tokyo) salamander
  2. female whale
  3. small fish
  4. old person's teeth

Readings

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
鯢
さんしょううお
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

鯢(さんしょううお) or 鯢(サンショウウオ) • (sanshōuo) ←さんせううを (sanseuuwo) or サンセウウヲ (sanseuuwo)?

  1. Alternative spelling of 山椒魚 (“primitive salamander”)

Korean

salamander

Hanja

鯢 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

  1. (도롱뇽) salamander

See also

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