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延

延

Translingual

Han character

延 (radical 54 廴+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓大竹卜一 (NKHYM) or 弓大竹卜女 (NKHYV), four-corner 12401, composition ⿺廴⿱丿止)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 352, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9569
  • Dae Jaweon: page 666, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 404, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5EF6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 延

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (延) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唌 *l'aːn
誕 *l'aːnʔ
蜑 *l'aːnʔ
蛋 *l'aːns
硟 *slan, *l̥ʰjans
涎 *ljan, *lans
脠 *l̥ʰan, *hljan
梴 *l̥ʰan
鋋 *ɦljan, *lan
埏 *hljan, *lan
挻 *hljan
鯅 *hljan
延 *lan, *lans
筵 *lan
蜒 *lan
狿 *lan, *lans
郔 *lan
綖 *lan
莚 *lan, *lans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lan, *lans) : phonetic 丿 ‎(OC *pʰleːd, *leds) + semantic 㢟.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 延 延 延
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 以 (36) 章 (23) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 仙 (77) 清 (121) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III III III
Fanqie 以然切 諸盈切 于線切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇn/ /t͡ɕiᴇŋ/ /jiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛn/ /t͡ɕiɛŋ/ /jiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /jæn/ /t͡ɕiæŋ/ /jænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jian/ /ciajŋ/ /jianH/
Li
Rong		 /iɛn/ /t͡ɕiɛŋ/ /iɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭɛn/ /t͡ɕĭɛŋ/ /jĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ɛn/ /t͡ɕi̯ɛŋ/ /i̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yán zhēng yàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 延
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*la[n]/
English extend

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 延 延
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14256 14267
Phonetic
component		 延 延
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 延
Old
Chinese		 /*lan/ /*lans/

Definitions

延

  1. to prolong
  2. to stretch; to extend
  3. to engage; to send for
  4. to delay; to postpone; to defer

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

延

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. prolong

Readings

Korean

Hanja

延 • ‎(yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

延 (dang, dan, diên)

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