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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水弓田火 (ENWF), four-corner 37136)

References

  • KangXi: page 644, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18101
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1052, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1726, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+6F01

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sŋaː
*sŋaː
*ŋa
*ŋa
*ŋa

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  +  or phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋa) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *ŋa).

Etymology

From (OC *ŋa, “fish”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋɨə̆/
Li
Rong
/ŋiɔ/
Wang
Li
/ŋĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngjo ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ŋ](r)a/
English to fish

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 15940
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋa/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to fish
  2. to seize; to pursue (illegitimately)
  3. A surname.

Compounds

  • 侵漁侵渔
  • 冰島漁夫冰岛渔夫
  • 坐收漁利坐收渔利
  • 海洋漁業海洋渔业
  • 涸漁涸渔
  • 涸澤而漁涸泽而渔
  • 淡水漁業淡水渔业
  • 漁人渔人 (yúrén)
  • 漁人之利渔人之利
  • 漁人得利渔人得利
  • 漁具渔具
  • 漁利渔利 (yúlì)
  • 漁唱渔唱
  • 漁場渔场 (yúchǎng)
  • 漁夫渔夫 (yúfū)
  • 漁奪渔夺
  • 漁娘渔娘
  • 漁婆渔婆
  • 漁家渔家 (yújiā)
  • 漁戶渔户
  • 漁撈渔捞 (yúlāo)
  • 漁政船渔政船
  • 漁會渔会
  • 漁村渔村 (yúcūn)
  • 漁梁渔梁
  • 漁業渔业 (yúyè)
  • 漁業氣象渔业气象
  • 漁樵記渔樵记
  • 漁歌渔歌
  • 漁民渔民 (yúmín)
  • 漁民保險渔民保险
  • 漁民團體渔民团体
  • 漁民節渔民节
  • 漁汛渔汛
  • 漁港渔港 (yúgǎng)
  • 漁火渔火
  • 漁父渔父
  • 漁獲渔获 (yúhuò)
  • 漁獲量渔获量
  • 漁獵渔猎
  • 漁獵時代渔猎时代
  • 漁產渔产
  • 漁經獵史渔经猎史
  • 漁網渔网 (yúwǎng)
  • 漁翁渔翁 (yúwēng)
  • 漁翁之利渔翁之利
  • 漁翁得利渔翁得利
  • 漁舟渔舟 (yúzhōu)
  • 漁船渔船 (yúchuán)
  • 漁艇渔艇
  • 漁色渔色
  • 漁輪渔轮
  • 漁郎渔郎
  • 漁陽弄渔阳弄
  • 漁陽摻撾渔阳掺挝
  • 漁陽鞞鼓渔阳鞞鼓
  • 漁霸渔霸
  • 漁鼓渔鼓
  • 竭澤而漁竭泽而渔
  • 網漁業网渔业
  • 近海漁業近海渔业
  • 遠洋漁業远洋渔业
  • 養殖漁業养殖渔业

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to fish

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
りょう
Grade: 4
kan'yōon

From confusion with .[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana りょう, romaji ryō, historical hiragana れふ)

  1. (business) fishing

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(eo) (hangeul , revised eo, McCune-Reischauer ŏ, Yale e)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ngư)

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