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鰻
鰻
See also: 鳗
Translingual
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (曼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 獌 | *mroːn, *moːns, *mons |
| 鬘 | *mroːn |
| 謾 | *mroːn, *mroːns, *mon, *moːn, *moːns |
| 慢 | *mroːns |
| 嫚 | *mroːns |
| 縵 | *mroːns, *moːns |
| 曼 | *moːn, *mons |
| 饅 | *moːn |
| 蔓 | *moːn, *mons |
| 鰻 | *moːn, *mons |
| 墁 | *moːn, *moːns |
| 鏝 | *moːn, *moːns |
| 槾 | *moːn |
| 漫 | *moːns |
| 幔 | *moːns |
| 蟃 | *mons |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moːn, *mons) : semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons) – a kind of fish. Note that 曼 has meaning of “long”, hence connotations of “a long fish, an eel”.
Han character
鰻 (radical 195 魚+11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 弓火日田水 (NFAWE), four-corner 26347, composition ⿰魚曼)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 1477, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46443
- Dae Jaweon: page 2008, character 34
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4710, character 8
- Unihan data for U+9C3B
Chinese
| trad. | 鰻 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 鳗 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: man2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: man
- IPA (key): /ma̠n³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: maan4, maan6
- Yale: màahn, maahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: maan4, maan6
- IPA (key): /mɑːn²¹/, /mɑːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: màn
- Hakka Romanization System: manˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: man2
- IPA: /man¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: môa
- Tâi-lô: muâ
- Phofsit Daibuun: moaa
- IPA (Xiamen): /mua²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /mua²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /mua¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /mua²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /mua²³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 鰻 | 鰻 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 桓 (62) | 元 (66) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | III |
| Fanqie | 母官切 | 無販切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/muɑn/ | /mʉɐnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mʷɑn/ | /mʷiɐnH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/muɑn/ | /miuɐnH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mwan/ | /muanH/ |
| Li Rong |
/muɑn/ | /miuɐnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/muɑn/ | /mĭwɐnH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/muɑn/ | /mi̯wɐnH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mán | wàn |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 鰻 | 鰻 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 8744 | 8758 |
| Phonetic component |
曼 | 曼 |
| Rime group |
元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
瞞 | 万 |
| Old Chinese |
/*moːn/ | /*mons/ |
Noun
鰻
Derived terms
Japanese
Kanji
鰻
Readings
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 鰻 |
|
うなぎ Hyōgaiji |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Noun
鰻 (hiragana うなぎ, katakana ウナギ, romaji unagi)
Derived terms
Derived terms
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References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 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
鰻 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)
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