閼

See also: 阏

閼 U+95BC, 閼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95BC ← 閻 [U+95BB] CJK Unified Ideographs 閽 → [U+95BD]

Translingual

Han character

閼 (Kangxi radical 169, 門もん+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日にち弓ゆみ卜ぼく尸しかばね卜ぼく (ANYSY), four-corner 7723₃, composition ⿵門もん於)

1. block, obstruct, stop up, conceal

Derived characters

• 𤂷

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1337, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41380
• Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4306, character 3
• Unihan data for U+95BC

Chinese

trad.		閼
simp.		阏

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
閼	*qran, *qeːn, *qaːd, *qad
菸	*qeːn, *qas
於	*qaː, *qa
淤	*qa, *qas
箊	*qa
唹	*qa
扵	*qa
瘀	*qas
棜	*qas

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yān, è, yù (yan¹, e⁴, yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢ, ㄜˋ, ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin¹ / aat³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): at
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): at

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yān
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yan
    • Wade–Giles: yen¹
    • Yale: yān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ian
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: è
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Yale: è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin¹ / aat³
    • Yale: yīn / aat
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin¹ / aat⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin¹ / ad³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn⁵⁵/, /aːt̚³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: at
    • Hakka Romanization System: ad^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ad⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /at̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: at
    • Tâi-lô: at
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /at̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /at̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /at̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: 'en, 'jen, 'jot, 'at

Rime
Character	閼	閼	閼	閼
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲こえ)	影かげ (34)	影かげ (34)	影かげ (34)	影かげ (34)
Final (韻いん)	先さき (85)	仙せん (79)	月つき (67)	曷 (63)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	IV	III	III	I
Fanqie	烏がらす前まえ切きり	於乾いぬい切きり	於歇切きり	烏がらす葛かずら切きり
Baxter	'en	'jen	'jot	'at
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔen/	/ʔˠiᴇn/	/ʔɨɐt̚/	/ʔɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔen/	/ʔᵚiɛn/	/ʔiɐt̚/	/ʔɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛn/	/ʔiæn/	/ʔiɐt̚/	/ʔɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛn/	/ʔian/	/ʔɨat̚/	/ʔat̚/
Li Rong	/ʔen/	/ʔjɛn/	/ʔiɐt̚/	/ʔɑt̚/
Wang Li	/ien/	/ĭɛn/	/ĭɐt̚/	/ɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔien/	/ʔi̯ɛn/	/ʔɨ̯ɐt̚/	/ʔɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yān	yān	ye	e
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin1	jin1	jit3	ot3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qran/, /*qeːn/, /*qaːd/, /*qad/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	閼
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	è
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔat ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁat/
English	repress; cease
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	閼	閼	閼	閼
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
No.	15807	15808	15820	15821
Phonetic component	於	於	於	於
Rime group	元もと	元もと	月つき	月つき
Rime subdivision	1	2	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	焉	煙けむり	遏	謁
Old Chinese	/*qran/	/*qeːn/	/*qaːd/	/*qad/
Notes	閼氏し見み史ふみ記き

Definitions

閼

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Compounds

• 夭閼／夭阏 (yǎo'è)
• 淤閼／淤阏 (yū'è)
• 閼伯／阏伯
• 閼塞／阏塞 (èsè)
• 閼氏／阏氏 (yānzhī)
• 閼與／阏与
• 閼逢／阏逢
• 雍閼

 

References

• “閼”, 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

閼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: あち (achi)、えん (en)
• Kan-on: あつ (atsu)、えん (en)
• Kan’yō-on: あ (a)
• Kun: とどめる (todomeru, 閼める)、ふさぐ (fusagu, 閼ぐ)

Korean

Hanja

閼 (eumhun 가로막을 알 (garomageul al))

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