咹

咹 U+54B9, 咹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54B9 ← 咸 [U+54B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 咺 → [U+54BA]

Translingual

Han character

咹 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口十女 (RJV), four-corner 6304₄, composition ⿰口安)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 187, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3564
• Dae Jaweon: page 406, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 623, character 3
• Unihan data for U+54B9

Chinese

trad.		咹
simp. #		咹

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
安	*qaːn
鞍	*qaːn
鞌	*qaːn
侒	*qaːn
按	*qaːns
案	*qaːns
洝	*qaːns
荌	*qaːns
晏	*qaːns, *qraːns
鴳	*qraːns
騴	*qraːns
鷃	*qraːns
頞	*qaːd
胺	*qaːd
咹	*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qaːd): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn)

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: è
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Yale: è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: 'at

Rime
Character	咹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	曷 (63)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏葛切
Baxter	'at
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔat̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɑt̚/
Wang Li	/ɑt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	e
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ot3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	咹
Reading #	1/1
No.	26
Phonetic component	安
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	遏
Old Chinese	/*qaːd/

Definitions

咹

1. (historical dictionaries only) to eat
2. (historical dictionaries only) to talk silently
3. (historical dictionaries only) to stop

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): àn (an⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: àn
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: àn
    • Wade–Giles: an⁴
    • Yale: àn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ann
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵¹/

Definitions

咹

1. (historical dictionaries only) stopping of sound

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ān (an¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ān
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: an
    • Wade–Giles: an¹
    • Yale: ān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵/

Definitions

咹

1. alternative form of 唵 (ān, “interjection indicating response: yeah”)

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎn (an³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ǎn
    • Wade–Giles: an³
    • Yale: ǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: aan
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän²¹⁴/

Definitions

咹

1. alternative form of 唵 (ǎn, “interjection indicating doubt”)

Pronunciation 5

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hon¹ / on¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: hon¹ / on¹
    • Yale: hōn / ōn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hon¹ / on¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hon¹ / on¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn⁵⁵/, /ɔːn⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Definitions

咹

1. (Cantonese) sound of an automobile horn

Compounds

• 咹咹
• 響咹 / 响咹

Japanese

Kanji

咹

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): あつ (atsu)、あち (achi)、あん (an)
• Kun: どもる (domoru)、ささやく (sasayaku)、やむ (yamu)

Tày

Classifier

咹 (ăn)

1. Nôm form of ăn (“Used for inanimate things that lack specific classifiers”).

   安腩𫭻咹奏

   Ăn nồm cợ ăn tẩu

   A breast as big as a bottle gourd

Noun

咹 (ăn)

1. Nôm form of ăn (“thing, specifically fruit”).

   南秋仙㓜許色咹

   Nẳm xo tiên au hẩư sắc ăn

   Thinking of asking the angels for some fruits.

References

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]