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宴

宴

Translingual

Han character

宴 (radical 40 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十日女 (JAV), four-corner 30404, composition ⿱宀妟)

  1. to entertain, feast
  2. a feast, banquet

References

  • KangXi: page 286, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7166
  • Dae Jaweon: page 565, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 933, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5BB4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 宴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (妟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
堰 *qrens, *qanʔ, *qans
躽 *qrens, *qeːnʔ
宴 *qeːnʔ, *qeːns
蝘 *qeːnʔ, *qanʔ
偃 *qanʔ
郾 *qanʔ, *qans
鶠 *qanʔ
褗 *qanʔ, *qans
匽 *qanʔ
鼴 *qanʔ
鰋 *qanʔ
揠 *qreːd

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 宴 宴
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 先 (85) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 於殄切 於甸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔenX/ /ʔenH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔenX/ /ʔenH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔɛnX/ /ʔɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔɛnX/ /ʔɛnH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔenX/ /ʔenH/
Wang
Li		 /ienX/ /ienH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔienX/ /ʔienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎn yàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宴
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔˤe[n]-s/
English feast (n.)

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 宴 宴
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14380 14383
Phonetic
component		 妟 妟
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 蝘 宴
Old
Chinese		 /*qeːnʔ/ /*qeːns/

Noun

宴

  1. banquet, feast

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

宴

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
宴
うたげ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alteration of 打ち上げ ‎(uchiage, “finishing of a performance, banquet at the finishing of a performance”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

宴 ‎(hiragana うたげ, romaji utage)

  1. party, banquet, feast

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
宴
えん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 宴 ‎(ʔenH, “banquet, feast”).

Pronunciation

Noun

宴 ‎(hiragana えん, romaji en)

  1. party, banquet, feast

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

宴 • ‎(yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宴 (yến)

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