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顏
顏
Translingual
| Traditional | 顏 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 顔 |
| Simplified | 颜 |
Han character
顏 (radical 181 頁+9, 18 strokes, cangjie input X卜竹一月 (XYHMB) or 卜竹一月金 (YHMBC), four-corner 01286, composition ⿰彥頁)
References
- KangXi: page 1407, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43591
- Dae Jaweon: page 1924, character 21
- Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 7, page 4383, character 10
- Unihan data for U+984F
Chinese
| trad. | 顏 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 颜 | |
| alt. forms | 顔 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (彦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 喭 | *ŋaːns, *ŋrans |
| 鏟 | *sŋ̥ʰreːnʔ, *sŋ̥ʰraːns |
| 産 | *sŋreːnʔ |
| 簅 | *sreːnʔ |
| 摌 | *sreːnʔ |
| 嵼 | *sŋreːnʔ |
| 滻 | *sŋreːnʔ |
| 顏 | *ŋraːn |
| 楌 | *ŋraːn |
| 偐 | *ŋraːns |
| 齴 | *ŋranʔ |
| 遃 | *ŋranʔ |
| 嵃 | *ŋranʔ |
| 彦 | *ŋrans |
| 諺 | *ŋrans |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋraːn) : phonetic 彥 (OC *ŋrans) + semantic 頁.
Bronze inscription forms: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋraːn) : phonetic 产 + semantic 面.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaan4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngièn / ngiàn
- Min Nan (POJ): gân / hiâⁿ
- Wu (Wiktionary): nge (T3); hhi (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: yen2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
- IPA (key): /i̯ɛn³⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ngaan4
- Yale: ngàahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: ngaan4
- IPA (key): /ŋɑːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngièn
- Hakka Romanization System: ngienˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ngian2
- IPA: /ɲi̯en¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngiàn
- Hakka Romanization System: ngianˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ngian2
- IPA: /ɲi̯an¹¹/
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gân
- Tâi-lô: gân
- Phofsit Daibuun: gaan
- IPA (Quanzhou): /gan²⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /gan²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /gan²³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /gan²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /gan¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiâⁿ
- Tâi-lô: hiânn
- Phofsit Daibuun: hviaa
- IPA (Xiamen): /hiã²⁴/
- Note: gân - literary; hiâⁿ - vernacular.
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: nge (T3); hhi (T3)
- IPA (key): /ŋᴇ²³/, /ɦi²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 顏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 刪 (69) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 五姦切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ŋˠan/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ŋᵚan/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ŋɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ŋaɨn/ |
| Li Rong |
/ŋan/ |
| Wang Li |
/ŋan/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ŋan/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
yán |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 顏 | 顏 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
yán | yán |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ngæn › | ‹ ngæn › |
| Old Chinese |
/*C.ŋˤrar/ | /*C.ŋˤrar/ |
| English | face, forehead | surname |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | ||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 顏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14405 |
| Phonetic component |
彦 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
顏 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ŋraːn/ |
Definitions
顏
Synonyms
- (color): 色 (sè)
Compounds
Derived terms from 顏
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Japanese
Kanji
顏
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 顔)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
顏 • (an) (hangeul 안, McCune-Reischauer an, Yale an)
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Vietnamese
Han character
顏 (nhan)
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