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U+5AE9, 嫩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5AE9

[U+5AE8]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5AEA]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 38, +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女木中大 (VDLK), four-corner 48440, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 270, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6666
  • Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1075, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5AE9

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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Corrupted form of .

Etymology 1

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Unclear. Possibly as variant of (OC) ~ (OC *nonʔ); alternatively, related to Burmese နုန့် (nun., weak, exhausted from illness), yet this meaning barely overlaps with "soft to touch" (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /nən⁵¹/
Harbin /lən⁵³/
/nən⁵³/
Tianjin /lən⁵³/
Jinan /luẽ²¹/
Qingdao /luə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /luən³¹²/
Xi'an /nuẽ⁴⁴/
Xining /nuə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /nuŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /lũn¹³/
Ürümqi /nuŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /nən³⁵/
Chengdu /nən¹³/
Guiyang /nen²¹³/
Kunming /nuə̃²¹²/
Nanjing /lun⁴⁴/
Hefei /lən⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /nuəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /nəŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /nə̃ŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /nəŋ²³/
Suzhou /nən³¹/
Hangzhou /nen¹³/
Wenzhou /nø²²/
Hui Shexian /lʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /luːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /lən⁵⁵/
/lən¹¹/
Xiangtan /nən²¹/
Gan Nanchang /lɨn²¹/
Hakka Meixian /nun⁵³/
Taoyuan /nun⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nyn²²/
Nanning /nyn²²/
Hong Kong /nyn²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /lun²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /nɔuŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /nɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /luŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /nun³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (8)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter nwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nuənH/
Pan
Wuyun
/nuonH/
Shao
Rongfen
/nuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nwənH/
Li
Rong
/nuənH/
Wang
Li
/nuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nuənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nùn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
neon6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9409
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuːns/

Definitions

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  1. tender; delicate
  2. inexperienced; unskilled
    新生受不了 [MSC, trad.]
    新生受不了 [MSC, simp.]
    Nà bāng xīnshēng tài nèn le, zhēn shòubuliǎo. [Pinyin]
    Those new students are so noobish; I can't stand them.
  3. (of food) tender; soft
  4. (of colour) light
  5. (Eastern Min) small
Synonyms
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  • (tender):
  • (small):
Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) of tender): (lǎo)

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. Used in transcription.
  2. (Protestantism) Nun (father of Joshua)
Synonyms
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  • (Nun): (Catholicism) (Nóng)

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. young
  2. weak

Readings

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  • Go-on: のん (non)
  • Kan-on: どん (don)
  • Kun: わかい (wakai, 嫩い)

Compounds

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Korean

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Hanja

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(eumhun 어릴 (eoril nun))

  1. soft, tender, delicate
  2. young

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: non, nộn, nỏn, nồn, nõn, nọn

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