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Translingual

Han character

(radical 123 +7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿土水弓人 (TGENO), four-corner 80182, composition𦍌)

  1. envy, admire
  2. to praise
  3. covet

References

  • KangXi: page 952, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28503
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1396, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3134, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7FA8

Chinese

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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ji/
Shao
Rongfen
/jɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ji/
Li
Rong
/i/
Wang
Li
/ji/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiàn xiàn yán
Middle
Chinese
‹ zjenH › ‹ zjenH › ‹ yen ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-N-qa[r]-s/ /*s-[ɢ]a[n]-s/ /*[ɢ]a[n]/
English covet, desire surplus, affluence extend; go forward

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
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 13573 13574 13575
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lel/ /*ljans/ /*lans/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 企羨企羡
  • 個個稱羨个个称羡
  • 健羨健羡
  • 充羨充羡
  • 奇羨奇羡
  • 曼羨曼羡
  • 欣羨欣羡
  • 欽羨钦羡
  • 歆羨歆羡
  • 歎羨叹羡
  • 稱羨称羡 (chēngxiàn)
  • 羨慕羡慕 (xiànmù)
  • 羨煞羡煞
  • 羨財羡财
  • 羨餘羡余
  • 耗羨耗羡
  • 臨川羨魚临川羡鱼
  • 臨河羨魚临河羡鱼
  • 臨淵羨魚临渊羡鱼
  • 談羨谈羡
  • 豔羨艳羡 (yànxiàn)
  • 陽羨阳羡
  • 餘羨余羡
  • 驚羨惊羡

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(seon, yeon) (hangeul , , revised seon, yeon, McCune-Reischauer sŏn, yŏn, Yale sen, yen)

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