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耎

耎

Translingual

Han character

耎 (radical 126 而+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一月大 (MBK), four-corner 10432, composition ⿱而大)

  1. weak
  2. pliable, soft, yielding

References

  • KangXi: page 961, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28877
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2811, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+800E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 耎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (耎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陾 *njɯ, *noːʔ
腝 *nuːs, *njonʔ, *nuːns
堧 *noːls, *njon
稬 *noːls, *noːnʔ, *noːns
愞 *noːls, *noːns, *njonʔ
煗 *noːnʔ
餪 *noːnʔ
渜 *noːnʔ, *noːns
偄 *noːns, *njonʔ
瑌 *njon, *njonʔ
軟 *njonʔ
輭 *njonʔ
蝡 *njonʔ, *njunʔ
碝 *njonʔ
耎 *njonʔ
緛 *njonʔ
媆 *nuːns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 耎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 而兖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵiuᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵʷiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑjuænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵwianX/
Li
Rong		 /ȵiuɛnX/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭwɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑi̯wɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ruǎn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 耎
Reading # 1/1
No. 10909
Phonetic
component		 耎
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 輭
Old
Chinese		 /*njonʔ/
Notes 說文而聲，疑耎𦓔皆需（濡）之隸變異構

Japanese

Kanji

耎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. weak
  2. pliable
  3. soft
  4. yielding

Readings

Korean

Hanja

耎 • ‎(yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune-Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

  1. slender
  2. soft

Vietnamese

Han character

耎 (nguyễn)

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