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衍

衍

Translingual

Han character

衍 (radical 144 行+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹人水一弓 (HOEMN), four-corner 21103, composition ⿻行氵)

References

  • KangXi: page 1108, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34033
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 820, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+884D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 衍

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (衍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
愆 *kʰran
衍 *lanʔ, *lans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lanʔ, *lans) : semantic 行 + phonetic 水 ‎(OC *qʰʷljilʔ, “water”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 衍 衍
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 仙 (77) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 以淺切 于線切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇnX/ /jiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛnX/ /jiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /jænX/ /jænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jianX/ /jianH/
Li
Rong		 /iɛnX/ /iɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭɛnX/ /jĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ɛnX/ /i̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎn yàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 衍
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yenX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-q(r)anʔ/
English overflow

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 衍 衍
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14376 14377
Phonetic
component		 衍 衍
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 演
Old
Chinese		 /*lanʔ/ /*lans/

Definitions

衍

  1. overflow, spill over, spread out

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

衍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

衍 • ‎(yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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