偄

偄 U+5044, 偄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5044 ← 偃 [U+5043] CJK Unified Ideographs 偅 → [U+5045]

Translingual

Han character

偄 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人一月大 (OMBK), composition ⿰亻耎)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 109, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 831
• Dae Jaweon: page 233, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 188, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5044

Chinese

simp. and trad.		偄

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
陾	*njɯ, *noːʔ
腝	*nuːs, *njonʔ, *nuːns
堧	*noːls, *njon
稬	*noːls, *noːnʔ, *noːns
愞	*noːls, *noːns, *njonʔ
煗	*noːnʔ
餪	*noːnʔ
渜	*noːnʔ, *noːns
偄	*noːns, *njonʔ
瑌	*njon, *njonʔ
軟	*njonʔ
輭	*njonʔ
蝡	*njonʔ, *njunʔ
碝	*njonʔ
耎	*njonʔ
緛	*njonʔ
媆	*nuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *noːns, *njonʔ) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 耎 (OC *njonʔ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ruǎn (ruan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ruǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ruǎn
    • Wade–Giles: juan³
    • Yale: rwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: roan
    • Palladius: жуань (žuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu̯än²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁵
    • Yale: yúhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: nywenX, nwanH

Rime
Character	偄	偄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	而兖切	奴亂切
Baxter	nywenX	nwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiuᴇnX/	/nuɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵʷiɛnX/	/nʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjuænX/	/nuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵwianX/	/nwanH/
Li Rong	/ȵiuɛnX/	/nuɑnH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭwɛnX/	/nuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯wɛnX/	/nuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ruǎn	nuàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun5	nyun6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*noːns/, /*njonʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	偄	偄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10896	10910
Phonetic component	耎	耎
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	偄	輭
Old Chinese	/*noːns/	/*njonʔ/

Definitions

偄

1. ^† weak
2. ^‡ to respect

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 偄 – see 儒 (“scholar; learned person; Confucian; Ruist; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 儒).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C00210
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00253-006

Japanese

Kanji

偄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): だん (dan); なん (nan)
• Kun: よわい (yowai)

Korean

Hanja

偄 • (nan, yeon) (hangeul 난, 연, revised nan, yeon, McCune–Reischauer nan, yŏn)

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