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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火火月女火 (FFBVF), four-corner 99903)

  1. coil
  2. worry, care
  3. puzzle, confuse
  4. bend

References

  • KangXi: page 933, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27733
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1371, character 38
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3440, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7E08

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qreːŋ
*qreːŋ
*qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
*qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
*pqʰʷeːŋ
*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
*qʷraːŋʔ
*ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
*ɢʷreːŋ
*ɢʷreŋ
*ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
*ɢʷreŋ
*ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
*ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
*kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
*ɡʷeŋ
*ɡʷeŋ
*qʷeŋ
*ɢʷeŋ
*ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
*ɢʷeŋ
*ɢʷeŋ
*ɡʷeːŋ
*ɡʷeːŋ
*ɡʷeːŋ
*qʷeːŋʔ
*qʷeːŋs

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (122)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔwiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔʷiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiuæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔwiajŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʔiuɛŋ/
Wang
Li
/ĭwɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯wɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yōng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 15376
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʷeŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 嫘縈嫘萦
  • 左縈右拂左萦右拂
  • 曲折縈紆曲折萦纡
  • 牽縈牵萦
  • 緹縈救父缇萦救父
  • 縈思萦思
  • 縈懷萦怀
  • 縈紆萦纡 (yíngyū)
  • 縈繞萦绕
  • 縈繫萦系
  • 縈迴萦回
  • 縈青繚白萦青缭白
  • 苹縈苹萦
  • 魂牽夢縈魂牵梦萦

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. entangle
  2. entwine, coil

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(yeong) (hangeul , revised yeong, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

  1. entangle
  2. entwine, coil