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閻

閻

See also: 阎

Translingual

Han character

閻 (radical 169 門+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日弓弓竹X (ANNHX), four-corner 77777, composition ⿵門臽)

  1. village gate
  2. used as a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 1337, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41379
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1842, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4305, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+95BB

Chinese

trad. 閻
simp. 阎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 閻
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (臽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
萏 *l'oːmʔ
窞 *l'oːmʔ
惂 *kʰloːmʔ
輡 *kʰloːmʔ
錎 *kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
埳 *kʰloːmʔ
臽 *kʰloːmʔ, *ɡroːms
淊 *ɡloːmʔ, *qroːm, *qroːms, *lomʔ
欿 *ɡloːmʔ
蜭 *ɡloːmʔ, *ɡluːms
啗 *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms
鵮 *ʔr'oːm, *kʰroːm, *kʰroːms
餡 *ɡroːms
陷 *ɡroːms
爓 *ljom, *loms
諂 *l̥ʰomʔ
讇 *l̥ʰomʔ
閻 *lom
焰 *loms
壛 *lom
櫩 *lom
燄 *lomʔ
掐 *kʰroːb

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 閻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 余廉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /jæm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jiam/
Li
Rong		 /iɛm/
Wang
Li		 /jĭɛm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ɛm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 閻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yem ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ][a]m/
English gate over street or lane

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 閻
Reading # 1/1
No. 13564
Phonetic
component		 臽
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 鹽
Old
Chinese		 /*lom/

Definitions

閻

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Japanese

Kanji

閻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. village gate
  2. good-looking
  3. used as a phonetic sign for the transcription of Sanskrit

Readings

Compounds

References

  • 広辞苑　第六版 (Kōjien, 6th ed.)
  • 漢字源 (Kanjigen)
  • 学研漢和大字典 (Gakken Kanwa Daijiten)

Korean

Hanja

閻 • ‎(yeom) (hangeul 염, revised yeom, McCune-Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

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Vietnamese

Han character

閻 (diêm)

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