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筵

筵 U+7B75, 筵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B75
← 筴
[U+7B74] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 筶 →
[U+7B76]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

筵 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓大一 (HNKM) or 竹弓大女 (HNKV), four-corner 88401, composition ⿱𥫗延)

  1. bamboo mat
  2. feast, banquet

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 886, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26080
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1314, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2967, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7B75

Chinese edit

trad. 筵
simp. # 筵

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (延) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唌 *l'aːn
誕 *l'aːnʔ
蜑 *l'aːnʔ
蛋 *l'aːns
硟 *slan, *l̥ʰjans
涎 *ljan, *lans
脠 *l̥ʰan, *hljan
梴 *l̥ʰan
鋋 *ɦljan, *lan
埏 *hljan, *lan
挻 *hljan
鯅 *hljan
延 *lan, *lans
筵 *lan
蜒 *lan
狿 *lan, *lans
郔 *lan
綖 *lan
莚 *lan, *lans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lan) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 延 (OC *lan, *lans).

Pronunciation edit

Rime
Character 筵
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以然切
Baxter yen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jiᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/jæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/jian/
Li
Rong 		/iɛn/
Wang
Li 		/jĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jin4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 筵
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yen ›
Old
Chinese 		/*la[n]/
English bamboo mat

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 筵
Reading # 1/1
No. 14257
Phonetic
component 		延
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		延
Old
Chinese 		/*lan/

Definitions edit

筵

  1. (obsolete or in compounds) banquet; feast
    盛筵  ―  shèngyán  ―  grand banquet
    喜筵  ―  xǐyán  ―  banquet for a happy event
  2. (obsolete) bamboo mat
  3. (obsolete) seat

Compounds edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (筵):
  • → Japanese: 筵(えん) (en)

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

筵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
筵
むしろ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
席
蓆
莚

⟨musiro2⟩ → */musiɾə/ → /musiɾo/ → /muɕiɾo/

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720.[1][2]

Reconstructed as deriving from Proto-Japonic *mosirə.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

筵(むしろ) • (mushiro) 

  1. [from 720] a generic term for a woven mat made out of soft rush, bamboo, straw, or cattail
    • c. 1001–1014, Murasaki Shikibu, Genji Monogatari (Wakamurasaki)
      「過(よぎ)りおはしましけるよし、ただ今(いま)なむ、人申(ひとまを)すに、おどろきながら、さぶらべきを、なにがしこの寺(てら)に籠(こ)もりはべりとは、しろしめしながら、忍(しの)びさせたまへるを、憂(うれ)はしく思(おも)ひたまへてなむ。草(くさ)の御(み)むしろも、この坊(まち)にこそ設(まう)けはべるべけれ。いと本意(ほい)なきこと」と申(まを)したまへり。
      “Yogiriohashimashikeruyoshi, tadaimanamu, hitomaosuni, odorokinagara, saburabekio, nanigashikonoteranikomorihaberitoha, shiroshimeshinagara, shinobisasetamaheruo, urehashikuomohitamahetenamu. Kusanomimushiromo, konomachinikosomaukehaberubekere. Itohoinakikoto” tomaoshitamaheri.
      (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. [from 1170] a seat; also used in public environments
  3. [from 1603] a bed
  4. (regional, Nagasaki, Kumamoto) a tatami mat

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
筵
もしろ
Hyōgaiji
irregular
Alternative spellings
席
蓆
莚

From non-central dialects of Old Japanese that haven't undergone the vowel rising <*o → u> for some reason.

Noun edit

筵(もしろ) • (moshiro) 

  1. (dialectal, Tōhoku, Ishikawa, Izumo) Nonstandard form of むしろ (mushiro) above

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
筵
えん
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 筵 (MC yen).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

筵(えん) • (en) 

  1. [unknown] a woven mat
  2. [from 1110] a seat; also used in public environments

References edit

  1. ^ Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN, page 724
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “むしろ 【筵・蓆・席・莚】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)  ‎[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja edit

筵 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

筵: Hán Nôm readings: diên

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