沔

沔	U+6C94, 沔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C94

← 沓
[U+6C93]

CJK Unified Ideographs

沕 →
[U+6C95]

Translingual

Han character

沔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水一中尸 (EMLS), four-corner 3112₇, composition ⿰氵丏)

Derived characters

𢚽, 𫦇

References

KangXi: page 611, character 16
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17207
Dae Jaweon: page 1004, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1560, character 2
Unihan data for U+6C94

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
汅	*menʔ
沔	*menʔ
丏	*meːnʔ
眄	meːnʔ, meːns
麪	*meːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *menʔ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 丏 (OC *meːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): miǎn (mian³)
(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁵
Min Nan (POJ): bián

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: miǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: miǎn
  - Wade–Giles: mien³
  - Yale: myǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mean
  - Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjɛn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: min⁵
  - Yale: míhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: min⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: min⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːn¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bián
  - Tâi-lô: bián
  - Phofsit Daibuun: biern
  - IPA (Xiamen): /biɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛn⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /biɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛn⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: /miᴇn^X/

Rime
Character	沔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	彌兖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/mjæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mian^X/
Li Rong	/miɛn^X/
Wang Li	/mĭɛn^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	min⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m.nerʔ/
(Zhengzhang): /*menʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ mjien^X ›
Old Chinese	/*m.nerʔ/
English	richly flowing stream
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沔
Reading #	1/1
No.	9059
Phonetic component	丏
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	緬
Old Chinese	/*menʔ/

Definitions

沔

(～水) ancient name of Han river, a tributary of the Yangtze river
(～州) (historical) name of prefecture in Hubei province during Western Wei, Sui and Tang dynasties
(～州) (historical) name of prefecture in Shaanxi province during Southern Song period (1127-1279)
(archaic) overflowing; full; inundated with water
^† Alternative form of 湎 (miǎn, “to indulge in; to wallow in”).

Compounds

沔城 (Miǎnchéng)
沔水
沔沔

流沔
渺沔

湛沔
沔陽／沔阳 (Miǎnyáng)

Japanese

Kanji

沔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): べん (ben), めん (men), びん (bin), みん (min)

Korean

Hanja

沔 • (myeon) (hangeul 면, revised myeon, McCune–Reischauer myŏn, Yale myen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沔: Hán Nôm readings: miền, miện, miên

Nôm form of miền (“region, district”).

References

Nom Foundation