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鰹
鰹
See also: 鲣
Translingual
Han character
鰹 (radical 195 魚+11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 弓火尸水土 (NFSEG), four-corner 27314)
- a skipjack tuna, a bonito, Katsuwonus pelamis (Japanese)
- a great eel (Classical Chinese)
- a kind of shark
References
- KangXi: page 1477, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46437
- Dae Jaweon: page 2008, character 28
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4709, character 14
- Unihan data for U+9C39
Chinese
| trad. | 鰹 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 鲣 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (臣) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 臤 | *kʰaːn, *kʰriːn, *ɡiːn, *kʰins |
| 掔 | *kʰriːn, *kʰiːn |
| 慳 | *kʰriːn |
| 藖 | *ɡriːn, *ɡriːns |
| 堅 | *kiːn |
| 鋻 | *kiːn, *kiːns |
| 鰹 | *kiːn |
| 蜸 | *kʰiːnʔ |
| 菣 | *kʰiːns, *kʰins |
| 賢 | *ɡiːn |
| 礥 | *ɡiːn, *ɢrin |
| 臔 | *ɡiːnʔ |
| 挋 | *kiŋs |
| 臣 | *ɡiŋ |
| 茞 | *ɡiŋ |
| 腎 | *ɡjinʔ |
| 頣 | *hŋiŋʔ |
| 緊 | *kinʔ |
| 嚚 | *ŋɡriŋ |
| 鏗 | *kʰreːŋ |
| 摼 | *kʰreːŋ |
| 硻 | *kʰreːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kiːn) : semantic 魚 + phonetic 堅 (OC *kiːn).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ
- Wade-Giles: chien1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gin1
- Yale: gīn
- Cantonese Pinyin: gin1
- IPA (key): /kiːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 鰹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 古賢切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ken/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ken/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kɛn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kɛn/ |
| Li Rong |
/ken/ |
| Wang Li |
/kien/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kien/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jiān |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 鰹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1332 |
| Phonetic component |
臣 |
| Rime group |
眞 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
堅 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kiːn/ |
| Notes | 見爾雅 |
Definitions
鰹
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Japanese
Kanji
鰹
Readings
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 鰹 |
|
かつお Hyōgaiji |
| kun'yomi |
/katuwo/ → /katuo/
From compound of 堅 (kata, “hard”) + 魚 (uo) + fish, from the long-standing practice of drying lower-grade tuna into hard blocks.
Alternately, from compound of 搗つ (katsu, “to subdue by striking”) + 魚 (uo, “fish”), from the way in which these fish were subdued when catching them.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
鰹 (hiragana かつお, katakana カツオ, romaji katsuo, historical hiragana かつを)
Derived terms
Descendants
- New Latin: Katsuwonus
References
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
鰹 • (gyeon) (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kyŏn, Yale kyen)
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Vietnamese
Han character
鰹 (kiên)
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