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安
安
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Han character
安 (radical 40 宀+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十女 (JV), four-corner 30404, composition ⿱宀女)
Derived characters
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 282, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7072
- Dae Jaweon: page 552, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 913, character 9
- Unihan data for U+5B89
Chinese
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 安
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (安) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 安 | *qaːn |
| 鞍 | *qaːn |
| 鞌 | *qaːn |
| 侒 | *qaːn |
| 按 | *qaːns |
| 案 | *qaːns |
| 洝 | *qaːns |
| 荌 | *qaːns |
| 晏 | *qaːns, *qraːns |
| 鴳 | *qraːns |
| 騴 | *qraːns |
| 鷃 | *qraːns |
| 頞 | *qaːd |
| 胺 | *qaːd |
| 咹 | *qaːd |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 宀 (“house”) + 女 (“a woman or a kneeling person”) – person in a kneeling position sitting on the heels at home.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): on1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ôn
- Min Dong (BUC): ăng
- Min Nan (POJ): an
- Wu (Wiktionary): oe (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄢ
- Wade-Giles: an1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
- IPA (key): /ˀa̠n⁵⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: on1
- Yale: ōn
- Cantonese Pinyin: on1
- IPA (key): /ɔːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ôn
- Hakka Romanization System: on´
- Hagfa Pinyim: on1
- IPA: /on²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ăng
- IPA (key): /aŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: an
- Tâi-lô: an
- Phofsit Daibuun: afn
- IPA (Xiamen): /an⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /an³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /an⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /an⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /an⁴⁴/
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- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: oe (T1)
- IPA (key): /ø⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 安 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /an⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin |
/an⁴⁴/ /nan⁴⁴/ |
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| Tianjin | /nan²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /ŋã²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /ɣã²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /an²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /ŋã²¹/ | |
| Xining | /nã⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /an⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ɛ̃n³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /an⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /ŋan⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /ŋan⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang |
/ŋan⁵⁵/ /an⁵⁵/ 新 |
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| Kunming | /ã̠⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /aŋ³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /ʐæ̃²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɣæ̃¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /ŋɑŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /ŋæ̃³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ø⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /ø⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ʔẽ̞³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /y³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ŋɛ³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /uːə¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ŋan³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ŋan³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /ŋɵn⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /on⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /on²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /ɔn⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /ɔn⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /ɔn⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/an⁵⁵/ /uã⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /aŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /uiŋ⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) |
/aŋ³³/ /uã³³/ |
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| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/aŋ²³/ /ua²³/ |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 安 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 烏寒切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ʔɑn/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ʔɑn/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ʔɑn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ʔan/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʔɑn/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɑn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʔɑn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
ān |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 安 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11 |
| Phonetic component |
安 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
安 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qaːn/ |
Definitions
安
- calm; peaceful; tranquil; quiet
- comfortable; at ease
- safe; secure
- to calm; to pacify
- to feel satisfied with
- to find a place for; to plant
- to fit; to install
- to cherish; to harbour
- to confer (a title); to bestow; to put (the blame on someone)
- where
- how; why
- (physics) Short for 安培 (ānpéi, “ampere”).
- A surname.
Compounds
Derived terms from 安
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Descendants
Japanese
Kanji
安
- (An) Peace, peacefulness.
- (Yasui) Cheap.
Readings
- Goon: あん (an)
- Kan’on: あん (an)
- Kun: やすい (yasui), やすらか (yasuraka), やすんじる (yasunjiru), いずくんぞ (izukunzo)
- Nanori: あ (a)
Compounds
Compounds
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