鴦

See also: 鸯

鴦 U+9D26, 鴦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D26 ← 鴥 [U+9D25] CJK Unified Ideographs 鴧 → [U+9D27]

Translingual

Han character

鴦 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥とり+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中ちゅう大竹おおたけ日にち火ひ (LKHAF), four-corner 5032₇, composition ⿱央ひさし鳥とり)

1. female mandarin duck

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1487, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46822
• Dae Jaweon: page 2018, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4623, character 14
• Unihan data for U+9D26

Chinese

trad.		鴦
simp.		鸯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (央ひさし) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鴦	*qaːŋ, *qaŋ
佒	*qaːŋ
咉	*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
眏	*qaːŋ
姎	*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
坱	*qaːŋʔ
映うつ	*qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs
泱	*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ
盎	*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
駚	*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ
軮	*qaːŋʔ
醠	*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
央ひさし	*qaŋ
秧	*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ
殃	*qaŋ
鞅	*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
鉠	*qaŋ, *qraŋ
雵	*qaŋ
胦	*qaŋ, *qroːŋ
柍	*qaŋʔ
詇	*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs
岟	*qaŋʔ
炴	*qaŋʔ
怏	*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
紻	*qaŋʔ
英えい	*qraŋ
瑛あきら	*qraŋ
霙	*qraŋ
韺	*qraŋ
媖	*qraŋ
渶	*qraŋ
鶧	*qraŋ
楧	*qraŋ
暎	*qraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *qaːŋ, *qaŋ) : phonetic 央ひさし (OC *qaŋ) + semantic 鳥とり (“bird”).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yāng (yang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yông
• Eastern Min (BUC): iŏng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iuⁿ / ioⁿ / iong
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ian

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yang
    • Wade–Giles: yang¹
    • Yale: yāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iang
    • Palladius: ян (jan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: joeng¹
    • Yale: yēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
    • Hakka Romanization System: iong^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯oŋ²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iong^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯oŋ²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: iŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yoŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Hsinchu, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iuⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: iunn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: viw
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Lukang): /iũ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Yilan, Kinmen): /iũ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ioⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: ionn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: vioy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Tainan): /iɔ̃⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iong
    • Tâi-lô: iong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iofng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔŋ³³/

Note:

• iuⁿ/ioⁿ - vernacular;
• iong - literary.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹ian
    • MiniDict: ian^平ひらた
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ian
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /iã⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jang, 'ang

Rime
Character	鴦	鴦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	影かげ (34)	影かげ (34)
Final (韻いん)	陽ひ (105)	唐とう (101)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	I
Fanqie	於良りょう切きり	烏がらす郎ろう切きり
Baxter	'jang	'ang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨɐŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɐŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiɑŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨaŋ/	/ʔaŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔiaŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭaŋ/	/ɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯aŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yāng	āng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	joeng1	ong1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːŋ/, /*qaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鴦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yāng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjang ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔaŋ/
English	female mandarin duck
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	鴦	鴦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14472	14491
Phonetic component	央ひさし	央ひさし
Rime group	陽ひ	陽ひ
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	鴦	央ひさし
Old Chinese	/*qaːŋ/	/*qaŋ/

Definitions

鴦

1. female mandarin duck

   鴛おしどり鴦／鸳鸯  ―  yuānyāng  ―  mandarin duck

Compounds

• 亂らん點てん鴛鴦えんおう／乱らん点てん鸳鸯
• 同どう命いのち鴛鴦えんおう／同どう命いのち鸳鸯
• 被ひ底そこ鴛鴦えんおう／被ひ底そこ鸳鸯
• 野の鴛鴦えんおう／野の鸳鸯
• 鴛鴦えんおう／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng)
• 鴛鴦えんおう客きゃく／鸳鸯客きゃく
• 鴛鴦えんおう房ぼう／鸳鸯房ぼう
• 鴛鴦えんおう折おり頸／鸳鸯折おり颈
• 鴛鴦えんおう樓ろう／鸳鸯楼ろう
• 鴛鴦えんおう湖みずうみ／鸳鸯湖みずうみ
• 鴛鴦えんおう燈とう／鸳鸯灯とう
• 鴛鴦えんおう瓦かわら／鸳鸯瓦かわら
• 鴛鴦えんおう被ひ／鸳鸯被ひ
• 鴦龜／鸯龟

 

Japanese

Kanji

鴦

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: よう (yō)、おう (ō)
• Kun: おしどり (oshidori)

Korean

Hanja

鴦 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang, Yale ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鴦: Hán Nôm readings: ương

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