埏

埏

埏 U+57CF, 埏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57CF ← 城 [U+57CE] CJK Unified Ideographs 埐 → [U+57D0]

Translingual

Han character

埏 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土弓大一 (GNKM) or 土弓大女 (GNKV), four-corner 4214₁, composition ⿰土延)

1. a boundary, a limit

References

• KangXi: page 230, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5121
• Dae Jaweon: page 466, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 445, character 10
• Unihan data for U+57CF

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
唌	*l'aːn
誕	*l'aːnʔ
蜑	*l'aːnʔ
蛋	*l'aːns
硟	*slan, *l̥ʰjans
涎	*ljan, *lans
脠	*l̥ʰan, *hljan
梴	*l̥ʰan
鋋	*ɦljan, *lan
埏	*hljan, *lan
挻	*hljan
鯅	*hljan
延	*lan, *lans
筵	*lan
蜒	*lan
狿	*lan, *lans
郔	*lan
綖	*lan
莚	*lan, *lans

Etymology 1

trad.		埏
simp. #		埏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yán (yan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yán
    • Wade–Giles: yen²
    • Yale: yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin⁴
    • Yale: yìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /jiᴇn/

Rime
Character	埏
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以然切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/jæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jian/
Li Rong	/iɛn/
Wang Li	/jĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin4

Definitions

埏

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Compounds

八埏 (bāyán)

垓埏

埏隧

Etymology 2

trad.		埏
simp. #		埏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shān (shan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin¹, saan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shan
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹
    • Yale: shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin¹, saan¹
    • Yale: sīn, sāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹, saan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin¹, san¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵/, /saːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕiᴇn/

Rime
Character	埏
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	式連切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕian/
Li Rong	/ɕiɛn/
Wang Li	/ɕĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sin1

Definitions

埏

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Compounds

埏埴

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00548
• “埏”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

埏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. boundary
2. limit

Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen); えん (en)
• Kun: はかみち (hakamichi, 埏); のぼる (noboru, 埏る); やわらげる (yawarageru, 埏げる); こねる (koneru, 埏ねる)

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Korean

Hanja

埏 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn)

1. boundary