蜒

蜒	U+8712, 蜒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8712

← 蜑
[U+8711]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蜓 →
[U+8713]

Translingual

Han character

蜒 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈弓大一 (LINKM) or 中戈弓大女 (LINKV), four-corner 5214₁, composition ⿰虫延)

References

KangXi: page 1085, character 12

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33120

Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 19

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2849, character 14

Unihan data for U+8712

Chinese

Etymology 1

trad.		蜒
simp. ^#		蜒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (延) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
唌	*l'aːn
誕	*l'aːnʔ
蜑	*l'aːnʔ
蛋	*l'aːns
硟	slan, l̥ʰjans
涎	ljan, lans
脠	l̥ʰan, hljan
梴	*l̥ʰan
鋋	ɦljan, lan
埏	hljan, lan
挻	*hljan
鯅	*hljan
延	lan, lans
筵	*lan
蜒	*lan
狿	lan, lans
郔	*lan
綖	*lan
莚	lan, lans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lan) and ideogrammic compound (會意) : semantic 虫 (“insect”) + phonetic 延 (OC *lan, *lans, “extend”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yán (yan²)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁴
Min Nan (POJ): iân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yán
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yán
  - Wade–Giles: yen²
  - Yale: yán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yan
  - Palladius: янь (janʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jin⁴
  - Yale: yìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yin⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân
  - Tâi-lô: iân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ieen
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɛn¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /iɛn²⁴/

Middle Chinese: /jiᴇn/

Rime
Character	蜒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以然切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/jæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jian/
Li Rong	/iɛn/
Wang Li	/jĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*lan/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜒
Reading #	1/1
No.	14258
Phonetic component	延
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	延
Old Chinese	/*lan/

Definitions

蜒

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Compounds

海蜒
蚰蜒 (yóuyán)

蚰蜒草
蜒蚰 (yányóu)

蜒蜒
蜿蜒 (wānyán)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蜒 – see 蜑 (“the Tanka people of southern China and Vietnam”). (This character, 蜒, is a variant form of 蜑.)

Japanese

Kanji

蜒

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

serpentine, winding

Readings

Go-on: えん (en)
Kan-on: えん (en)

Compounds

Compounds

蜿蜒(えんえん) (en'en): meandering, winding
蜻蜒(やんま) (yanma): a kind of large dragonfly

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