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卵

卵

卵 U+5375, 卵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5375
← 却
[U+5374] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卶 →
[U+5376]
See also: 卯 and 卬

Translingual

Han character

卵 (radical 26 卩+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸中戈 (HHSLI), four-corner 77720, composition ⿰𠂑卪)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 159, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2857
  • Dae Jaweon: page 365, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 313, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5375

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 卵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卵 *ɡ·roːlʔ, *ɡ·roːnʔ
關 *kroːn
関 *kroːn
聯 *ɡ·ron

Pictogram (象形) – spawn, egg.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-row ‎(“egg, nit”). Cognate with Tibetan སྲོ་མ ‎(sro ma, “egg of a louse, nit, small bubble”).

鯤 (OC *kuːn) may represent a doublet resulting from prefix preemption. Compare its variant 𡖉.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 卵 卵
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 桓 (62) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 盧管切 郎果切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /luɑnX/ /luɑX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lʷɑnX/ /luɑX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /luɑnX/ /luɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lwanX/ /lwaX/
Li
Rong		 /luɑnX/ /luɑX/
Wang
Li		 /luɑnX/ /luɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /luɑnX/ /luɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 luǎn luǒ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 卵 卵
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 luǎn luǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lwaX › ‹ lwanX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k.rˤorʔ/ (dialect: *-r > *-j) /*k.rˤorʔ/
English egg egg

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 卵 卵
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8639 8643
Phonetic
component		 卵 卵
Rime
group		 歌 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 裸 卵
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡ·roːlʔ/ /*ɡ·roːnʔ/

Definitions

卵

  1. egg; ovum; roe; spawn
  2. (entomology) fertilised egg
  3. (regional) testicles

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

卵

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. an egg

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
卵
たまご
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
卵

Compound of 玉 ‎(tama, “ball”) +‎ 子 ‎(ko, “child, small thing”). The final ko voices to go due to rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

卵 ‎(hiragana たまご, romaji tamago)

  1. an egg
    This term in Japanese is nearly as broad in use as English egg, indicating an egg as laid by various oviparous organisms, and egg as used in cooking. For the more specific biological sense of ovum, see 卵子 ‎(ranshi).

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
卵
らん
Grade: 6
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 卵 ‎(lwanX).

Pronunciation

Noun

卵 ‎(hiragana らん, romaji ran)

  1. ovum

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 3 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

卵 • ‎(ran>nan) (hangeul 란>난)

  1. ovum

Vietnamese

Han character

卵 (noãn)

  1. ovum

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