甗

甗

甗 U+7517, 甗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7517 ← 甖 [U+7516] CJK Unified Ideographs 甘 → [U+7518]

Translingual

Han character

甗 (Kangxi radical 98, 瓦+16, 21 strokes, cangjie input X卜月一女 (XYBMV) or 卜月一女弓 (YBMVN), four-corner 2121₇, composition ⿰鬳瓦)

1. earthenware vessel in two parts

References

• KangXi: page 753, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21626
• Dae Jaweon: page 1160, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1433, character 14
• Unihan data for U+7517

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Chinese

trad.		甗
simp. #		甗
alternative forms		鬳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甗
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
獻	*sŋaːl, *hŋans, *ŋrad
甗	*ŋan, *ŋranʔ, *ŋrans
巘	*ŋranʔ, *ŋanʔ
讞	*ŋranʔ, *ŋrans, *ŋrad
鬳	*ŋans
瓛	*ɦŋʷaːn
囐	*sɡaːd
齾	*ŋaːd, *ŋraːd
钀	*ŋrad, *ŋad

Initially a pictogram (象形) of a two-part cooking vessel. Later 虍 was added and the cooking vessel became 鬲, producing 鬳.

In the current form, an ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋan, *ŋranʔ, *ŋrans) : phonetic 鬳 (OC *ŋans, “cooking vessel”) + semantic 瓦 (“earthenware”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎn (yan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎn
    • Wade–Giles: yen³
    • Yale: yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin⁵
    • Yale: yíhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɨɐn/, /ŋˠiᴇn^X/, /ŋˠiᴇn^H/

Rime
Character	甗	甗	甗
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	元 (65)	仙 (79)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	III
Fanqie	語軒切	魚蹇切	魚變切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨɐn/	/ŋˠiᴇnX/	/ŋˠiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋiɐn/	/ŋᵚiɛnX/	/ŋᵚiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiɐn/	/ŋiænX/	/ŋiænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɨan/	/ŋianX/	/ŋianH/
Li Rong	/ŋiɐn/	/ŋjɛnX/	/ŋjɛnH/
Wang Li	/ŋĭɐn/	/ŋĭɛnX/	/ŋĭɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɨ̯ɐn/	/ŋi̯ɛnX/	/ŋi̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán	yǎn	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin4	jin5	jin6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋrar-s/, /*ŋar/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋan/, /*ŋranʔ/, /*ŋrans/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	甗	甗
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǎn	yǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjenH ›	‹ ngjon ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋrar-s/	/*ŋar/
English	boiler	boiler
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	甗	甗	甗
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	14452	14453	14456
Phonetic component	鬳	鬳	鬳
Rime group	元	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	言	齴	彥
Old Chinese	/*ŋan/	/*ŋranʔ/	/*ŋrans/

Definitions

甗

1. (historical) earthenware cooking vessel consisting of a large steamer stacked on top of a smaller boiler and separated by a grate

   See also: 甑, 鬲, 箅

References

• “甗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

甗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): げん (gen); ごん (gon)
• Kun: こしき (koshiki)