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Translingual
Han character
隕 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓中口月金 (NLRBC), four-corner 76286, composition ⿰阝員)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1358, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41785
- Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4151, character 3
- Unihan data for U+9695
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 員
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*ɢon, *ɢun
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| 圓
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*ɢon
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| 塤
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*qʰon
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| 損
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*sqʰuːnʔ
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| 縜
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*ɢun
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| 隕
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*ɢunʔ
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| 殞
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*ɢunʔ
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| 溳
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*ɢunʔ, *ɢun
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| 磒
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*ɢunʔ
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| 霣
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*ɢunʔ
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| 愪
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*ɢunʔ, *ɢun
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| 勛
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*qʰun
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| 鄖
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*ɢun
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| 篔
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*ɢun
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| 貟
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*ɢun, *ɢuns
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| 韻
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*ɢʷɯns
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢunʔ) : semantic 𨸏 + phonetic 員 (OC *ɢon, *ɢun).
Pronunciation 1
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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隕
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yǔn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ hwinX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ʷrəʔ/
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| English
|
fall down
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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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隕
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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16204
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Phonetic
component
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員
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Rime
group
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文
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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殞
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Old
Chinese
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/*ɢunʔ/
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Definitions
隕
- to fall
- (literary) to destroy
- (literary) to lose
- (obsolete) Alternative form of 殞／殒 (yǔn, “to die”)
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
Definitions
隕
- (obsolete) Alternative form of 員／员 (“surroundings”)
References
Japanese
Kanji
隕
(Hyōgai kanji)
- to fall
- to die
Readings
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).
Pronunciation
Compounds
Affix
隕 • (in) ←ゐん (win)?
- fall; fall from the sky to the ground
Derived terms
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 隕 (MC hwinX).
Hanja
隕 (eumhun 떨어질 운 (tteoreojil un))
- hanja form? of 운 (“fall”)
Compounds
References
- 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
Vietnamese
Han character
隕: Hán Nôm readings: vẫn
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