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Translingual
Han character
鴛 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓山竹日火 (NUHAF), four-corner 27327, composition ⿱夗鳥)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1485, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46795
- Dae Jaweon: page 2017, character 21
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4625, character 10
- Unihan data for U+9D1B
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 涴
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*qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
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| 埦
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*qoːn
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| 豌
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*qoːn
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| 剜
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*qoːn
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| 眢
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*qoːn, *qon
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| 蜿
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*qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
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| 帵
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*qoːn
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| 碗
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*qoːnʔ
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| 椀
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*qoːnʔ
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| 盌
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*qoːnʔ
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| 腕
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*qoːns
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| 惋
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*qoːns
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| 捥
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*qoːns
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| 睕
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*qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
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| 琬
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*qoːns, *qonʔ
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| 鴛
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*quːn, *qon
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| 鵷
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*qon
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| 惌
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*qon, *qonʔ
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| 宛
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*qon, *qonʔ
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| 怨
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*qon, *qons
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| 葾
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*qon
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| 夗
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*qonʔ
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| 婉
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*qonʔ
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| 菀
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*qonʔ, *qud
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| 苑
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*qonʔ, *qons
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| 踠
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*qonʔ
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| 畹
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*qonʔ, *qons
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| 倇
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*qonʔ
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| 晼
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*qonʔ
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| 黦
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*qod, *qod, *qud
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| 焥
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*qoːd
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *quːn, *qon) : phonetic 夗 (OC *qonʔ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).
Etymology
Starostin reconstructs Old Chinese *ʔʷar, which he compares to Tibetan སྐྱར་པོ (skyar po, “snipe; woodcock”); both are from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɣʷăr.
Pronunciation
| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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鴛
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鴛
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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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16280
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16288
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Phonetic
component
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夗
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夗
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Rime
group
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文
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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2
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3
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Corresponding
MC rime
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𥁕
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鴛
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Old
Chinese
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/*quːn/
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/*qon/
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Definitions
鴛
- male mandarin duck (when used in 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng))
- Alternative form of 鵷／鹓 (yuān)
Compounds
References
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “鸳”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 293.
Japanese
Kanji
鴛
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
鴛 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
鴛: Hán Nôm readings: uyên, oan
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