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U+5B89, 安
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B89

[U+5B88]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5B8A]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 40 +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 十女 (JV), four-corner 30404, composition)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 282, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7072
  • Dae Jaweon: page 552, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 913, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5B89

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːn
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns
*qaːns, *qraːns
*qraːns
*qraːns
*qraːns
*qaːd
*qaːd
*qaːd

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (house) +  (a woman or a kneeling person) – person in a kneeling position sitting on the heels at home.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /an⁵⁵/
Harbin /an⁴⁴/
/nan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /nan²¹/
Jinan /ŋã²¹³/
Qingdao /ɣã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /an²⁴/
Xi'an /ŋã²¹/
Xining /nã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /an⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /an⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ŋan⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ŋan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ŋan⁵⁵/
/an⁵⁵/
Kunming /ã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /aŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʐæ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /ŋɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ŋæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ø⁵³/
Suzhou /ø⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /y³³/
Hui Shexian /ŋɛ³¹/
Tunxi /uːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ŋan³³/
Xiangtan /ŋan³³/
Gan Nanchang /ŋɵn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /on⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /on²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ɔn⁵³/
Nanning /ɔn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /ɔn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /an⁵⁵/
/uã⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /aŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /uiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /aŋ³³/
/uã³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /aŋ²³/
/ua²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔan/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑn/
Wang
Li
/ɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 11
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qaːn/

Definitions

  1. calm; peaceful; tranquil; quiet
  2. comfortable; at ease
  3. safe; secure
  4. to calm; to pacify
  5. to feel satisfied with
  6. to find a place for; to plant
  7. to fit; to install
  8. to cherish; to harbour
  9. to confer (a title); to bestow; to put (the blame on someone)
  10. where
  11. how; why
  12. (physics) Short for 安培 (ānpéi, “ampere”).
  13. A surname.

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. (An) Peace, peacefulness.
  2. (Yasui) Cheap.

Readings

Compounds

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(an) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer an)

  1. Peace, peacefulness.

Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(an, yên)

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