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Translingual
Han character
鴦 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中大竹日火 (LKHAF), four-corner 50327, composition ⿱央鳥)
- female mandarin duck
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1487, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46822
- Dae Jaweon: page 2018, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4623, character 14
- Unihan data for U+9D26
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 鴦
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*qaːŋ, *qaŋ
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| 佒
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*qaːŋ
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| 咉
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*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
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| 眏
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*qaːŋ
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| 姎
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*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
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| 坱
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*qaːŋʔ
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| 映
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*qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs
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| 泱
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*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ
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| 盎
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*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
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| 駚
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*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ
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| 軮
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*qaːŋʔ
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| 醠
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*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
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| 央
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*qaŋ
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| 秧
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*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ
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| 殃
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*qaŋ
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| 鞅
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*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
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| 鉠
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*qaŋ, *qraŋ
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| 雵
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*qaŋ
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| 胦
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*qaŋ, *qroːŋ
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| 柍
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*qaŋʔ
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| 詇
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*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs
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| 岟
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*qaŋʔ
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| 炴
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*qaŋʔ
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| 怏
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*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
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| 紻
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*qaŋʔ
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| 英
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*qraŋ
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| 瑛
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*qraŋ
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| 霙
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*qraŋ
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| 韺
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*qraŋ
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| 媖
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*qraŋ
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| 渶
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*qraŋ
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| 鶧
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*qraŋ
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| 楧
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*qraŋ
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| 暎
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*qraŋs
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːŋ, *qaŋ) : phonetic 央 (OC *qaŋ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Note:
- ieo1/iuⁿ1 - vernacular;
- yong1/yeng1 - literary.
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Hsinchu, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong)
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
Note:
- iuⁿ/ioⁿ - vernacular;
- iong - literary.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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鴦
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yāng
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ ʔjang ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ʔaŋ/
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| English
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female mandarin duck
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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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鴦
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鴦
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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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14472
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14491
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Phonetic
component
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央
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央
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Rime
group
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陽
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陽
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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鴦
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央
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Old
Chinese
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/*qaːŋ/
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/*qaŋ/
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Definitions
鴦
- female mandarin duck
- 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 ― yuānyāng ― mandarin duck
Compounds
References
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “鸯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 277.
Japanese
Kanji
鴦
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
鴦 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang, Yale ang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
鴦: Hán Nôm readings: ương
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