狁

狁 U+72C1, 狁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-72C1 ← 狀 [U+72C0] CJK Unified Ideographs 狂 → [U+72C2]

Translingual

Han character

狁 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 大竹戈竹山 (KHIHU), four-corner 4321₀, composition ⿰犭允)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 707, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20286
• Dae Jaweon: page 1120, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1338, character 3
• Unihan data for U+72C1

Chinese

simp. and trad.		狁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
唆	*sloːl
梭	*sloːl
葰	*sloːlʔ, *sroːlʔ, *slul
誜	*sroːls
朘	*ʔslon
捘	*ʔsluːls, *ʔsluːns, *sʰlun
荾	*slul
酸	*sloːn
狻	*sloːn
痠	*sloːn
鋑	*ʔslon
脧	*ʔsluːl
悛	*sʰlon
吮	*zlonʔ, *ɦljunʔ
萒	*ɡronʔ, *lonʔ
沇	*lonʔ
抁	*lonʔ
馻	*lonʔ, *lunʔ
兖	*lonʔ
渷	*lonʔ
兗	*lonʔ
焌	*ʔsluːns, *ʔsluns, *sʰlud
允	*lunʔ
狁	*lunʔ
玧	*lunʔ
俊	*ʔsluns
晙	*ʔsluns, *sluns
餕	*ʔsluns
畯	*ʔsluns
駿	*ʔsluns
竣	*sʰlun
皴	*sʰlun
逡	*sʰlun
踆	*sʰlun
夋	*sʰlun
埈	*sluns
陖	*sluns
鵕	*sluns
浚	*sluns
峻	*sluns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǔn (yun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǔn
    • Wade–Giles: yün³
    • Yale: yǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeun
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan⁵
    • Yale: wáhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: ywinX

Rime
Character	狁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	余準切
Baxter	ywinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiuɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷinX/
Shao Rongfen	/juenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwinX/
Li Rong	/iuĕnX/
Wang Li	/jĭuĕnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]u[r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lunʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	狁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǔn
Middle Chinese	‹ ywinX ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]u[r]ʔ/
English	獫狁 xjemX.ywinX (name of a northern tribe)
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	狁
Reading #	1/1
No.	16453
Phonetic component	允
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	尹
Old Chinese	/*lunʔ/

Definitions

狁

1. Only used in 玁狁／𤞤狁.

Japanese

Kanji

狁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): いん (in)