鴛

See also: 鸳

鴛	U+9D1B, 鴛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D1B

← 鴚
[U+9D1A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鴜 →
[U+9D1C]

Translingual

Han character

鴛 (radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓山竹日火 (NUHAF), four-corner 2732₇, composition ⿱夗鳥)

References

KangXi: page 1485, character 28

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46795

Dae Jaweon: page 2017, character 21

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4625, character 10

Unihan data for U+9D1B

Chinese

trad.		鴛
simp.		鸳

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夗) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
涴	qoːls, qoːn, *qonʔ
埦	*qoːn
豌	*qoːn
剜	*qoːn
眢	qoːn, qon
蜿	qoːn, qon, *qonʔ
帵	*qoːn
碗	*qoːnʔ
椀	*qoːnʔ
盌	*qoːnʔ
腕	*qoːns
惋	*qoːns
捥	*qoːns
睕	qoːns, qonʔ, *qoːd
琬	qoːns, qonʔ
鴛	quːn, qon
鵷	*qon
惌	qon, qonʔ
宛	qon, qonʔ
怨	qon, qons
葾	*qon
夗	*qonʔ
婉	*qonʔ
菀	qonʔ, qud
苑	qonʔ, qons
踠	*qonʔ
畹	qonʔ, qons
倇	*qonʔ
晼	*qonʔ
黦	qod, qod, *qud
焥	*qoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *quːn, *qon) : phonetic 夗 (OC *qonʔ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Etymology

Compare Tibetan སྐྱར་པོ (skyar po, “snipe; woodcock”) (Starostin).

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yuān (yuan¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄩㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun¹, jin¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yên / yân
Min Dong (BUC): uŏng
Min Nan (POJ): oan
Wu (Wiktionary): yoe (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: yuān
  - Zhuyin: ㄩㄢ
  - Wade–Giles: yüan¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iuan
  - IPA ^(key): /y̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jyun¹, jin¹
  - Yale: yūn, yīn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jyn¹, jin¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yun¹, yin¹
  - IPA ^(key): /jyːn⁵⁵/, /jiːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yên
  - Hakka Romanization System: ien´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yan¹
  - IPA: /i̯en²⁴/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yân
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)ian´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yan¹
  - IPA: /(j)i̯an²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: uŏng
  - IPA ^(key): /uoŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oan
  - Tâi-lô: uan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /uan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /uan³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /uan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /uan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /uan⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: yoe (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /yø⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /ʔʉɐn/, /ʔuən/▼

Rime
Character	鴛	鴛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	於袁切	烏渾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʉɐn/	/ʔuən/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷiɐn/	/ʔuon/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuan/	/ʔwən/
Li Rong	/ʔiuɐn/	/ʔuən/
Wang Li	/ĭwɐn/	/uən/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯wɐn/	/ʔuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuān	wēn

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*quːn/, /*qon/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鴛	鴛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16280	16288
Phonetic component	夗	夗
Rime group	文	元
Rime subdivision	2	3
Corresponding MC rime	𥁕	鴛
Old Chinese	/*quːn/	/*qon/

Definitions

鴛

male mandarin duck (when used in 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng))

Compounds

亂點鴛鴦／乱点鸳鸯
同命鴛鴦／同命鸳鸯
被底鴛鴦／被底鸳鸯
野鴛鴦／野鸳鸯
鴛侶／鸳侣
鴛儔鳳侶／鸳俦凤侣

鴛行／鸳行
鴛衾／鸳衾
鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng)
鴛鴦客／鸳鸯客
鴛鴦房／鸳鸯房
鴛鴦折頸／鸳鸯折颈

鴛鴦樓／鸳鸯楼
鴛鴦湖／鸳鸯湖
鴛鴦燈／鸳鸯灯
鴛鴦瓦／鸳鸯瓦
鴛鴦被／鸳鸯被
鴛鷺／鸳鹭

Japanese

Kanji

鴛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: おん (on)

Kan-on: えん (en), おん (on)

Kun: おしどり (oshidori)

Korean

Hanja

鴛 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鴛 (uyên, oan)

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