蜿蜒

蜿蜒

Chinese

		to move (as snake)
simp. and trad. (蜿蜒)		蜿	蜒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wānyán

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢ ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹ jin⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): oan-iân / oán-iân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wānyán
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢ ㄧㄢˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uanyan
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯än⁵⁵ i̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun¹ jin⁴
    • Yale: yūn yìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹ jin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun¹ yin⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵ jiːn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oan-iân
    • Tâi-lô: uan-iân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oan'ieen
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uan³³ iɛn²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oán-iân
    • Tâi-lô: uán-iân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oafn'ieen
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iɛn¹³/

Verb

蜿蜒

1. to wriggle
2. to wind; to zigzag; to meander

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
蜿	蜒
えん Hyōgaiji	えん Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

/weɴeɴ/ → /eɴeɴ/

From Middle Chinese 蜿蜒 (MC ʔʉɐn|ʔuɑn|ʔʉɐn^X jiᴇn, literally “wriggle, wind + stretch for a long distance”). Compare modern Mandarin reading wānyán.

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) えんえん [èń'éń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɰ̃ẽ̞ɴ]

Adjective

蜿蜒 (-tari inflection, hiragana えんえん, rōmaji en'en, historical hiragana ゑんえん)

1. meandering, winding
   • 1905: 韓國誌 (Kankoku-shi, “Korea Chronicle”), 農商務省 (Nōshōmushō, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce) (in Japanese), Tōkyō (text here):

     …此村 (このむら)ヨリ河 (かわ)ノ谷 (たに)ハ五 (ご)里 (り)二 (に)十 (じゅう)町 (ちょう)ノ間 (あいだ)蜿 (えん)蜒 (えん)タル峽 (きょう)地 (ち)ヲ形 (かたち)ツクリ…

     …kono mura yori kawa no tani wa go ri nijū chō no aida en'en taru kyōchi o katachi tsukuri…

     ...from this village, the river valley takes the form of a meandering gorge for a distance of five li and twenty chō [approx. 22km]...

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN