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Translingual

Han character

(radical 195 +12, 23 strokes, cangjie input 弓火廿土口 (NFTGR) or 弓火廿廿口 (NFTTR), four-corner 28361, composition)

  1. eel

References

  • KangXi: page 1478, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46499
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2009, character 39
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4714, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+9C54

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tjenʔ
*tjenʔ
*ɡjenʔ
*ɡjenʔ
*djanʔ
*djanʔ
*djenʔ, *djens
*djenʔ, *djens
*djenʔ
*djenʔ
*ɡjens
*djens
*djens

Pronunciation



Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 11087
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djanʔ/
Notes

Noun

  1. eel

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(seon) (hangeul , revised seon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, Yale sen)

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