沔

沔 U+6C94, 沔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C94 ← 沓 [U+6C93] CJK Unified Ideographs 沕 → [U+6C95]

Translingual

Han character

沔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水一中尸 (EMLS), four-corner 3112₇, composition ⿰氵丏)

Derived characters

• 𢚽, 𫦇

References

• KangXi: page 611, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17207
• Dae Jaweon: page 1004, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1560, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C94

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		沔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
汅	*menʔ
沔	*menʔ
丏	*meːnʔ
眄	*meːnʔ, *meːns
麪	*meːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *menʔ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 丏 (OC *meːnʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miǎn (mian³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): bián

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miǎn
    • Wade–Giles: mien³
    • Yale: myǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mean
    • Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: min⁵
    • Yale: míhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: min⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: min⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːn¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bián
    • Tâi-lô: bián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: biern
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛn⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛn⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /miᴇn^X/

Rime
Character	沔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	彌兖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/mjænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mianX/
Li Rong	/miɛnX/
Wang Li	/mĭɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	min5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m.nerʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*menʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ mjienX ›
Old Chinese	/*m.nerʔ/
English	richly flowing stream
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	沔
Reading #	1/1
No.	9059
Phonetic component	丏
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	緬
Old Chinese	/*menʔ/

Definitions

沔

1. (～水) ancient name of Han river, a tributary of the Yangtze river
2. (～州) (historical) name of prefecture in Hubei province during Western Wei, Sui and Tang dynasties
3. (～州) (historical) name of prefecture in Shaanxi province during Southern Song period (1127-1279)
4. (archaic) overflowing; full; inundated with water
5. ^† Alternative form of 湎 (miǎn, “to indulge in; to wallow in”).

Compounds

• 沔城 (Miǎnchéng)
• 沔水
• 沔沔

• 流沔
• 渺沔

• 湛沔
• 沔陽／沔阳 (Miǎnyáng)

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Japanese

Kanji

沔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): べん (ben), めん (men), びん (bin), みん (min)

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Korean

Hanja

沔 • (myeon) (hangeul 면, revised myeon, McCune–Reischauer myŏn, Yale myen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沔: Hán Nôm readings: miền, miện, miên

1. Nôm form of miền (“region, district”).

References

• Nom Foundation