沿

沿 U+2F8FC, 沿 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8FC ← 𣲼 CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 泍 →

Stroke order

Due to Han unification, different forms of the character are given the same codepoint. In simplified Chinese, Korean Hanja and Vietnamese Chữ Nôm, the upper right component is written 𠘧/几 to give 沿, which is the form found in the Kangxi dictionary. In traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan), the upper right component is written 儿 to give 沿. In Japanese shinjitai, the upper right component is written 八 to give 沿.

沿 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水金口 (ECR) or 水竹弓口 (EHNR), four-corner 3816₀, composition ⿰氵⿱𠘧口(GKV) or ⿰氵⿱⿰丿㇄口(HT) or ⿰氵㕣(J))

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 614, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17260
• Dae Jaweon: page 1008, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1590, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6CBF

• Unihan data for U+2F8FC

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lon) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 㕣 (OC *lon). The character originally referred to the edge of a river, and by extension, it came to represent the idea of "following along" or "accompanying."^[1]

The same word as 緣 (OC *lon, “to go along”). Cognate with 緣 (OC *lons, “hem; border on garment”), which is the exopassive of 沿 (OC *lon) (literally "what is followed/follows") (Schuessler, 2007).

Possibly related to Proto-Tai, compare Thai เลียน (liian, “to mimic”), or from Sino-Tibetan; compare Mizo zeelᴸ (“to walk along, a road along a hillside”) and Jingpho mə³¹-jan³³ (“flow along a cliff”) (Schuessler, 2007); nevertheless, Schuessler finds Middle Chinese descendant's rounded element difficult to reconcile phonologically with these items and proposes also a derivation from 由 (OC *lɯw).

沿

1. to follow a course, go along

   See also: 沿著／沿着

2. to continue or hand down

Shinjitai	沿
Kyūjitai [1]	沿 沿 or 沿+︀?
	沿󠄀 沿+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
	沿󠄄 沿+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 沿)

• Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kun: そう (sou, 沿う, Jōyō)^{←そふ (sofu, 沿ふ, historical)}、ぞい (zoi, 沿い)

From Middle Chinese 沿 (MC ywen).

• IPA^(key):

沿(えん) • (en) 

1. follow; go along

• 沿(えん)岸(がん) (engan): coast, shore

From Middle Chinese 沿 (MC ywen).

• (to follow a course; to continue):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
• (in 연혁 (沿革, yeonhyeok)):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

沿

Wikisource

沿 (eumhun 물 따라갈 연 (mul ttaragal yeon))

1. hanja form^? of 연 (“to follow a course”)
2. hanja form^? of 연 (“to continue”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

沿: Hán Nôm readings: duyên, diềm

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