㫃

㫃 U+3AC3, 㫃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-3AC3 ← 㫂 [U+3AC2] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 㫄 → [U+3AC4]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 𭤨 (when used as a component)

Han character

㫃 (Kangxi radical 70, 方+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人 (YSO), composition ⿰方人)

Derived characters

• 𪥏, 𬀁, 𣃘, 𣃢, 㫅

Related characters

• 倝

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 481, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2174, character 1
• Unihan data for U+3AC3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		㫃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 㫃
Shang		Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Ancient script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) – a flag.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎn (yan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎn
    • Wade–Giles: yen³
    • Yale: yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin²
    • Yale: yín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jonX, 'jenX

Rime
Character	㫃	㫃
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (65)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	於幰切	於蹇切
Baxter	'jonX	'jenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨɐnX/	/ʔˠiᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɐnX/	/ʔᵚiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiɐnX/	/ʔiænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨanX/	/ʔianX/
Li Rong	/ʔiɐnX/	/ʔjɛnX/
Wang Li	/ĭɐnX/	/ĭɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔɨ̯ɐnX/	/ʔi̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎn	yǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin2	jin2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qarʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	㫃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjonX ›
Old Chinese	/*qarʔ/
English	fluttering streamer
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.

Definitions

㫃

1. ^† appearance of flags flying

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 㫃 – see 偃 (“used in personal names”). (This character is an ancient form of 偃).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C04746
• “㫃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–