蜒

蜒

蜒 U+8712, 蜒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8712 ← 蜑 [U+8711] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜓 → [U+8713]

Translingual

Han character

蜒 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈弓大一 (LINKM) or 中戈弓大女 (LINKV), four-corner 5214₁, composition ⿰虫延)

References

• KangXi: page 1085, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33120
• Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2849, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8712

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Chinese

Etymology 1

trad.		蜒
simp. #		蜒

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lan) and ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 延 (OC *lan, *lans, “extend”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yán (yan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): iân

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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/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân
    • Tâi-lô: iân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ieen
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɛn¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /iɛn²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /jiᴇn/

Rime
Character	蜒
Reading #	1/1
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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*lan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜒
Reading #	1/1
No.	14258
Phonetic component	延
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	延
Old Chinese	/*lan/

Definitions

蜒

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Compounds

海蜒 蚰蜒 (yóuyán)

蚰蜒草 蜒蚰 (yányóu)

蜒蜒 蜿蜒 (wānyán)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蜒 – see 蜑 (“the Tanka people of southern China and Vietnam”). (This character, 蜒, is a variant form of 蜑.)

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Japanese

Kanji

蜒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. serpentine, winding

Readings

• Go-on: えん (en)
• Kan-on: えん (en)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蜿蜒(えんえん) (en'en): meandering, winding
• 蜻蜒(やんま) (yanma): a kind of large dragonfly