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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月戈大 (BIK), composition)

  1. dog meat

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 976, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29314
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2047, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+80B0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*rneːn
*njen
*njen
*njon, *njen
*njen
*njenʔ, *neːnʔ
*njenʔ, *ʔneːn
*neːnʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic  (meat) + semantic  (dog).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵian/
Li
Rong
/ȵiɛn/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rán
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10757
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njen/

References