碾

碾 U+78BE, 碾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78BE ← 碽 [U+78BD] CJK Unified Ideographs 碿 → [U+78BF]

Translingual

Han character

碾 (Kangxi radical 112, 石いし+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一口ひとくち尸しかばね廿にじゅう女おんな (MRSTV), four-corner 1763₂, composition ⿰石いし展てん)

1. roller, crush
2. roll

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 834, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24370
• Dae Jaweon: page 1251, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2450, character 5
• Unihan data for U+78BE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		碾
2nd round simp.		𰦪
alternative forms		輾／辗 𥑊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (展てん) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
碾	*ndenʔ, *ndens
輾	*ndens, *tenʔ
展てん	*tenʔ, *tens
搌	*tenʔ, *tens, *tʰenʔ

Alternative form of 輾／辗 (niǎn), using 石せき as semantic part instead of 車しゃ.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nja-s ~ *s-njan (“to punish; to oppress; to coerce”) (STEDT). Related to 蹍 (“to trample”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niǎn (nian³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zin² / nin⁵ / nin⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lián / lún
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹gni

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: niǎn
    • Wade–Giles: nien³
    • Yale: nyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nean
    • Palladius: нянь (njanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zin² / nin⁵ / nin⁶
    • Yale: jín / níhn / nihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin² / nin⁵ / nin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: jin² / nin⁵ / nin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn³⁵/, /niːn¹³/, /niːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lián / lún
    • Tâi-lô: lián / lún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liern, luon
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɛn⁵³/, /lun⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɛn⁵⁵⁴/, /lun⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɛn⁵³/, /lun⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɛn⁵³/, /lun⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɛn⁴¹/, /lun⁴¹/

Note:

• lián - literary;
• lún - vernacular.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹gni
    • MiniDict: nyi^平ひらた
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹'nyi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /n̠ʲi⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: nrjenH

Rime
Character	碾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	娘むすめ (12)
Final (韻いん)	仙せん (79)
Tone (調しらべ)	Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III
Fanqie	女おんな箭や切きり
Baxter	nrjenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/niænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳianH/
Li Rong	/njɛnH/
Wang Li	/nĭɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ni̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	niàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nin6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ndenʔ/, /*ndens/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	碾	碾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16779	16780
Phonetic component	展てん	展てん
Rime group	元もと	元もと
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	趁	輾
Old Chinese	/*ndenʔ/	/*ndens/
Notes	輾分ぶん化か字じ	輾轉てん註見み通つう俗ぞく文ぶん

Definitions

碾

1. roller
2. to grind; to crush

Synonyms

• (to crush): 軋きし／轧 (yà)

Compounds

• 步ふ碾兒／步ふ碾儿
• 碾坊
• 碾壓／碾压 (niǎnyā)
• 碾子 (niǎnzi)
• 碾屋 (Niǎnwū)
• 碾房
• 碾橋／碾桥 (Niǎnqiáo)
• 碾盤／碾盘
• 碾砣 (niǎntuó)
• 碾米 (niǎnmǐ)
• 碾船
• 茶ちゃ碾子

 

References

• “碾”, in 漢語かんご多功たこう能のう字じ庫こ (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港ほんこん中ちゅう文ぶん大學だいがく (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

碾

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てん (ten); でん (den)
• Kun: うす (usu); ひく (hiku)

Korean

Hanja

碾 • (nyeon>yeon) (hangeul 년>연, revised nyeon>yeon, McCune–Reischauer nyŏn>yŏn, Yale nyen>yen)

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