鞍

鞍

See also: 鞌

鞍 U+978D, 鞍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-978D ← 鞌 [U+978C] CJK Unified Ideographs 鞎 → [U+978E]

Translingual

Han character

鞍 (Kangxi radical 177, 革+6, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿十十女 (TJJV), four-corner 4354₄, composition ⿰革安)

References

• KangXi: page 1387, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42815
• Dae Jaweon: page 1902, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4335, character 8
• Unihan data for U+978D

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Chinese

trad.		鞍
simp. #		鞍

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
安	*qaːn
鞍	*qaːn
鞌	*qaːn
侒	*qaːn
按	*qaːns
案	*qaːns
洝	*qaːns
荌	*qaːns
晏	*qaːns, *qraːns
鴳	*qraːns
騴	*qraːns
鷃	*qraːns
頞	*qaːd
胺	*qaːd
咹	*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qaːn) and ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic 革 (“leather”) + 安 (“secure”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ān (an¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): on¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ôn
• Jin (Wiktionary): ghan¹
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): oaⁿ / an

  (Teochew, Peng'im): uan¹

• Wu (Wiktionary): oe (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ān
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: an
    • Wade–Giles: an¹
    • Yale: ān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: on¹
    • Yale: ōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: on¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: on¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːn⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: on´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: on¹
    • Sinological IPA: /on²⁴/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: ghan¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɣæ̃¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oaⁿ / an
    • Tâi-lô: uann / an
    • Phofsit Daibuun: voaf, afn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /uã⁴⁴/, /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /uã³³/, /an³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /uã⁴⁴/, /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /uã⁴⁴/, /an⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /uã⁴⁴/, /an⁴⁴/

Note:

• oaⁿ - vernacular;
• an - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: uan¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uaⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ũã³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: oe (T1)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ø⁵³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]ˤa[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鞍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ān
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔan ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]ˁa[n]/
English	[place name]
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	鞍
Reading #	1/1
No.	12
Phonetic component	安
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	安
Old Chinese	/*qaːn/
Notes	鞌字注或體

Definitions

鞍

1. saddle

Compounds

玉勒雕鞍 跨鞍子 金鞍 (jīn'ān) 鞍子 (ānzi) 鞍山 (Ānshān) 鞍甲 鞍部 (ānbù) 鞍韂 (ānchàn) 鞍鼻 一鞍一馬／一鞍一马

一馬一鞍／一马一鞍 摘鞍下馬／摘鞍下马 據鞍／据鞍 滾鞍／滚鞍 (gǔn'ān) 發鞍／发鞍 見鞍思馬／见鞍思马 鞍轡／鞍辔 (ānpèi) 鞍韉／鞍鞯 (ānjiān) 鞍馬／鞍马 (ānmǎ)

鞍馬勞倦／鞍马劳倦 鞍馬勞神／鞍马劳神 鞍馬勞頓／鞍马劳顿 (ānmǎláodùn) 馬不及鞍／马不及鞍 (mǎ bùjí ān) 馬鞍／马鞍 (mǎ'ān) 馬鞍山／马鞍山 (Mǎ'ānshān) 馬鞍藤／马鞍藤 駿馬雕鞍／骏马雕鞍 (jùnmǎ diāo ān) 騎鞍壓馬／骑鞍压马

Descendants

• → Proto-Tai: *ʔaːnᴬ
  • Thai: อาน (aan)

References

• “鞍”, 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

鞍

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Go-on: あん (an)
• Kan-on: あん (an)
• Kun: くら (kura, 鞍)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鞍
くら Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Noun

鞍(くら) • (kura) 

1. saddle

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鞍
あん Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 鞍.

Affix

鞍(あん) • (an) 

1. saddle

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Korean

Hanja

鞍 (eum 안 (an))

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Compounds

• 鞍裝 (안장, anjang, “saddle”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鞍: Hán Nôm readings: yên, an

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