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晏

晏

Translingual

Han character

晏 (radical 72 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日十女 (AJV), four-corner 60404, composition ⿱日安)

  1. peaceful, quiet
  2. clear
  3. late in the day

References

  • KangXi: page 495, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13914
  • Dae Jaweon: page 860, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1509, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+664F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 晏

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (安) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 晏
Mandarin Beijing /iɛn⁵¹/
Harbin /ian⁵³/
Tianjin /ian⁵³/
Jinan /iã²¹/
Qingdao /iã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ian³¹²/
Xi'an /iã⁴⁴/
Xining /iã²¹³/
Yinchuan /ian¹³/
Lanzhou /iɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ian²¹³/
Wuhan /iɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /ian¹³/
Guiyang /ian²¹³/ 姓
/ŋan²¹³/ 晚
Kunming /iɛ̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ien/
Hefei /iĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ie⁴⁵/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /e³⁵/
/i³⁵/
Suzhou /iɪ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ʔẽ̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /a⁴²/
Hui Shexian /ŋɛ³²⁴/
Tunxi /ŋɔ⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /ŋan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ŋan⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ŋan⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ian⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʒen⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /an³³/
Nanning /an³³/
Hong Kong /an³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /an²¹/
/uã²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iɛŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /uiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /aŋ²¹³/
/uã²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /aŋ³⁵/
/ua³⁵/
Rime
Character 晏 晏
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 寒 (61) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I II
Fanqie 烏旰切 烏澗切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɑnH/ /ʔˠanH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔɑnH/ /ʔᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔɑnH/ /ʔɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔanH/ /ʔaɨnH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔɑnH/ /ʔanH/
Wang
Li		 /ɑnH/ /anH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔɑnH/ /ʔanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 àn yàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 晏 晏
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yàn yàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔænH › ‹ ʔenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔˤ<r>a[n]-s/ /*ʔˤe[n]-s/
English peace, rest rest (v.)

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 晏 晏
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 19 20
Phonetic
component		 安 安
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 按 晏
Old
Chinese		 /*qaːns/ /*qraːns/

Adjective

晏

  1. late; near the end of a period of time
    晏起  ―  yànqǐ  ―  to get up late
  2. late in the day
    晏晝 / 晏昼 [Cantonese]  ―  aan3 zau3 [Jyutping]  ―  afternoon
  3. sunny and cloudless
  4. peaceful, tranquil, serene
    河清海晏  ―  héqīng hǎiyàn  ―  the (Yellow) River is clear and the sea is calm; the world is peaceful and prosperous

Synonyms

Proper noun

晏

  1. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

晏

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

晏 • ‎(an) (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an, Yale an)

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Vietnamese

Han character

晏 (yến)

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