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沿
沿
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Translingual
Alternative forms
Due to Han unification, the character looks somewhat different in Japanese: 沿
In Chinese, it looks like this: 沿
Han character
沿 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水金口 (ECR) or 水竹弓口 (EHNR), four-corner 38160, composition ⿰氵⿱几口)
References
- KangXi: page 614, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17260
- Dae Jaweon: page 1008, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1590, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6CBF
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
沿 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (沿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 船 | *ɦljon |
| 舩 | *ɦljon |
| 沿 | *lon |
| 鉛 | *lon |
| 鈆 | *kljoŋ, *lon |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: yen2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
- IPA (key): /i̯ɛn³⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jyun4
- Yale: yùhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: jyn4
- IPA (key): /jyːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân
- Tâi-lô: iân
- Phofsit Daibuun: ieen
- IPA (Xiamen): /iɛn²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /iɛn²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɛn¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /iɛn²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 沿 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ian³⁵/ |
| Harbin |
/ian²⁴/ 炕～兒 /ian⁵³/ 江～兒 |
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| Tianjin | /ian⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /iã⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /iã⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ian⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /iã²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /iã²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ian⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /iɛ̃n⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ian⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /iɛn²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /yan³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /ian²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /iɛ̃³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /ien²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /iĩ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ie¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /ie̞¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /ie⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɦi²³/ |
| Suzhou | /ɦiɪ¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɦyõ²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ji³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ie⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /iɛ⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /yẽ¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /yẽ¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ȵyɵn⁴⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ian¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /ʒen¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /jyn²¹/ |
| Nanning | /yn²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /jyn²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /ian³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /yoŋ⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /yiŋ³³/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /iŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /zin³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 沿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (78) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 與專切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/jiuᴇn/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/jʷiɛn/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/juæn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/jwian/ |
| Li Rong |
/iuɛn/ |
| Wang Li |
/jĭwɛn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/i̯wɛn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
yuán |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 沿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
yán |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ywen › |
| Old Chinese |
/*lon/ |
| English | go along (a river); follow |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 沿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14280 |
| Phonetic component |
沿 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
沿 |
| Old Chinese |
/*lon/ |
Definitions
沿
- river or sea coast(Can we verify(+) this sense?); to follow a course; continue or hand down
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
沿
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
沿 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
沿 (duyên)
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