鴻雁

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See also: 鸿雁

Chinese

{{vern|eastern bean goose}}; great; large wild goose
trad. (鴻雁/鴻鴈) /
simp. (鸿雁) 鸿

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (33) (31)
Final () (1) (69)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I II
Fanqie
Baxter huwng ngaenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuŋ/ /ŋˠanH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuŋ/ /ŋᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuŋ/ /ŋɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəwŋ/ /ŋaɨnH/
Li
Rong
/ɣuŋ/ /ŋanH/
Wang
Li
/ɣuŋ/ /ŋanH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣuŋ/ /ŋanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hóng yàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hung4 ngaan6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hóng yàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ huwng › ‹ ngænH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁoŋ/ /*C.ˁrar-s/
English kind of wild goose wild goose

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 4061 14436
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoːŋ/ /*ŋraːns/
Notes

Noun

鴻雁

  1. swan goose
  2. (literary, figurative) refugee; displaced people
  3. (literary, figurative) letter
  4. (literary, figurative) brother

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鴻雁):
  • Japanese: 鴻雁(こうがん) (kōgan)
  • Korean: 홍안(鴻雁) (hong'an)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
こう
Jinmeiyō
がん
Jinmeiyō
kan'on

Noun

(こう)(がん) (kōgan

  1. (literary) wild geese