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Translingual
Han character
鰥 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓火田中水 (NFWLE) or 弓火田中火 (NFWLF), four-corner 26333, composition ⿰魚眔)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1475, character 40
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46382
- Dae Jaweon: page 2007, character 25
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4706, character 9
- Unihan data for U+9C25
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 褱
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*ɡruːl, *ɡruːl
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| 鰥
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*kruːn, *kruːns
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| 嚃
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*l̥ʰuːb
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| 眔
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*l'uːb
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| 遝
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*l'uːb
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Etymology
From 寡 (OC *kʷraːʔ, “single; alone”) + *-n (“nominalizing suffix”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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鰥
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鰥
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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guān
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guān
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ kwɛn ›
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‹ kwɛn ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ʷˁrə/
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/*ʷˁrə/
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| English
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widower
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a kind of fish
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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鰥
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鰥
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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| No.
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1951
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1952
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Phonetic
component
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眔
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眔
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Rime
group
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文
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文
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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鰥
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鰥
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Old
Chinese
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/*kruːn/
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/*kruːns/
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Definitions
鰥
- widower
- widowed
- (obsolete) yellowcheek (Elopichthys bambusa)
- Synonym: 鱤／鳡 (gǎn)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
鰥
(Hyōgai kanji)
- widower
Readings
Etymology 1
| For pronunciation and definitions of 鰥 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 鰥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 鰥 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 鰥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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Korean
Hanja
鰥 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)
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