鴦

See also: 鸯

鴦 U+9D26, 鴦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D26 ← 鴥 [U+9D25] CJK Unified Ideographs 鴧 → [U+9D27]

Translingual

Han character

鴦 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中大竹日火 (LKHAF), four-corner 5032₇, composition ⿱央鳥)

1. female mandarin duck

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1487, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46822
• Dae Jaweon: page 2018, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4623, character 14
• Unihan data for U+9D26

Chinese

trad.		鴦
simp.		鸯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鴦	*qaːŋ, *qaŋ
佒	*qaːŋ
咉	*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
眏	*qaːŋ
姎	*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
坱	*qaːŋʔ
映	*qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs
泱	*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ
盎	*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
駚	*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ
軮	*qaːŋʔ
醠	*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
央	*qaŋ
秧	*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ
殃	*qaŋ
鞅	*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
鉠	*qaŋ, *qraŋ
雵	*qaŋ
胦	*qaŋ, *qroːŋ
柍	*qaŋʔ
詇	*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs
岟	*qaŋʔ
炴	*qaŋʔ
怏	*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
紻	*qaŋʔ
英	*qraŋ
瑛	*qraŋ
霙	*qraŋ
韺	*qraŋ
媖	*qraŋ
渶	*qraŋ
鶧	*qraŋ
楧	*qraŋ
暎	*qraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qaːŋ, *qaŋ) : phonetic 央 (OC *qaŋ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yāng (yang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yông
• Eastern Min (BUC): iŏng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ieo¹ / iuⁿ¹ / yong¹ / yeng¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iuⁿ / ioⁿ / iong
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹ian

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yang
    • Wade–Giles: yang¹
    • Yale: yāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iang
    • Palladius: ян (jan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: joeng¹
    • Yale: yēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
    • Hakka Romanization System: iong^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯oŋ²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iong^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯oŋ²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: iŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yoŋ⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ieo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ieu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: iuⁿ¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ĩũ⁵³³/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: yong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yɒŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: yeng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yøŋ⁵³³/

Note:

• ieo1/iuⁿ1 - vernacular;
• yong1/yeng1 - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Hsinchu, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iuⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: iunn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: viw
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Lukang): /iũ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Yilan, Kinmen): /iũ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Tainan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ioⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: ionn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: vioy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou, Tainan): /iɔ̃⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iong
    • Tâi-lô: iong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iofng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔŋ³³/

Note:

• iuⁿ/ioⁿ - vernacular;
• iong - literary.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹ian
    • MiniDict: ian^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ian
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /iã⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jang, 'ang

Rime
Character	鴦	鴦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	於良切	烏郎切
Baxter	'jang	'ang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨɐŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɐŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiɑŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨaŋ/	/ʔaŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔiaŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭaŋ/	/ɑŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯aŋ/	/ʔɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yāng	āng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	joeng1	ong1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːŋ/, /*qaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鴦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yāng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjang ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔaŋ/
English	female mandarin duck
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	鴦	鴦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14472	14491
Phonetic component	央	央
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	鴦	央
Old Chinese	/*qaːŋ/	/*qaŋ/

Definitions

鴦

1. female mandarin duck

   鴛鴦／鸳鸯  ―  yuānyāng  ―  mandarin duck

Compounds

• 亂點鴛鴦 / 乱点鸳鸯
• 同命鴛鴦 / 同命鸳鸯
• 被底鴛鴦 / 被底鸳鸯
• 野鴛鴦 / 野鸳鸯
• 鴛鴦 / 鸳鸯 (yuānyāng)
• 鴛鴦客 / 鸳鸯客
• 鴛鴦房 / 鸳鸯房
• 鴛鴦折頸 / 鸳鸯折颈
• 鴛鴦樓 / 鸳鸯楼
• 鴛鴦湖 / 鸳鸯湖
• 鴛鴦燈 / 鸳鸯灯
• 鴛鴦瓦 / 鸳鸯瓦
• 鴛鴦被 / 鸳鸯被 (yuānyāngbèi)
• 鴦龜 / 鸯龟

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鸯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 277.

Japanese

Kanji

鴦

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)
• Kan-on: よう (yō)、おう (ō)
• Kun: おしどり (oshidori)

Korean

Hanja

鴦 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang, Yale ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鴦: Hán Nôm readings: ương

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