鴛

See also: 鸳

鴛 U+9D1B, 鴛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D1B ← 鴚 [U+9D1A] CJK Unified Ideographs 鴜 → [U+9D1C]

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

trad.		鴛
simp.		鸳

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
涴	*qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
埦	*qoːn
豌	*qoːn
剜	*qoːn
眢	*qoːn, *qon
蜿	*qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
帵	*qoːn
碗	*qoːnʔ
椀	*qoːnʔ
盌	*qoːnʔ
腕	*qoːns
惋	*qoːns
捥	*qoːns
睕	*qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
琬	*qoːns, *qonʔ
鴛	*quːn, *qon
鵷	*qon
惌	*qon, *qonʔ
宛	*qon, *qonʔ
怨	*qon, *qons
葾	*qon
夗	*qonʔ
婉	*qonʔ
菀	*qonʔ, *qud
苑	*qonʔ, *qons
踠	*qonʔ
畹	*qonʔ, *qons
倇	*qonʔ
晼	*qonʔ
黦	*qod, *qod, *qud
焥	*qoːd

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuān (yuan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹ / jin¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yên / yân
• Eastern Min (BUC): uŏng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): eng¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oan
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ioe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuan
    • Wade–Giles: yüan¹
    • Yale: ywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iuan
    • Palladius: юань (juanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyun¹ / jin¹
    • Yale: yūn / yīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹ / jin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun¹ / yin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵/, /jiːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yên
    • Hakka Romanization System: ien^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yan¹
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯en²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yân
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ian^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yan¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯an²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: uŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uoŋ⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: eng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛŋ⁵³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oan
    • Tâi-lô: uan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹ioe
    • MiniDict: ioe^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹yoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /yø⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jwon, 'won

Rime
Character	鴛	鴛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	於袁切	烏渾切
Baxter	'jwon	'won
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉɐn/	/ʔuən/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐn/	/ʔuon/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuan/	/ʔwən/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuən/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐn/	/uən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐn/	/ʔuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuān	wēn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun1	wan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*quːn/, /*qon/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鴛	鴛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16280	16288
Phonetic component	夗	夗
Rime group	文	元
Rime subdivision	2	3
Corresponding MC rime	𥁕	鴛
Old Chinese	/*quːn/	/*qon/

Definitions

鴛

1. male mandarin duck (when used in 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng))
2. Alternative form of 鵷／鹓 (yuān)

Compounds

• 亂點鴛鴦／乱点鸳鸯
• 同命鴛鴦／同命鸳鸯
• 被底鴛鴦／被底鸳鸯
• 野鴛鴦／野鸳鸯
• 鴛侶／鸳侣 (yuānlǚ)
• 鴛儔鳳侶／鸳俦凤侣
• 鴛行／鸳行
• 鴛衾／鸳衾
• 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng)
• 鴛鴦客／鸳鸯客
• 鴛鴦房／鸳鸯房
• 鴛鴦折頸／鸳鸯折颈
• 鴛鴦樓／鸳鸯楼
• 鴛鴦湖／鸳鸯湖
• 鴛鴦燈／鸳鸯灯
• 鴛鴦瓦／鸳鸯瓦
• 鴛鴦被／鸳鸯被 (yuānyāngbèi)
• 鴛鷺／鸳鹭
• 鴛鸞／鸳鸾

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], 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

• Go-on: おん (on)
• Kan-on: えん (en)、おん (on)
• Kun: おしどり (oshidori)

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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