唁

唁 U+5501, 唁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5501 ← 唀 [U+5500] CJK Unified Ideographs 唂 → [U+5502]

Translingual

Han character

唁 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口卜一口 (RYMR), four-corner 6006₁, composition ⿰口言)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 191, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3690
• Dae Jaweon: page 411, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 632, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5501

Chinese

simp. and trad.		唁
alternative forms		喭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
唁	*ŋrans
這	*ŋrans
言	*ŋan
琂	*ŋan
圁	*ŋrɯn
誾	*ŋrɯn
訔	*ŋrɯn
狺	*ŋrɯn, *ŋɯn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋrans): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 言 (OC *ŋan).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): gān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngang³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
    • Wade–Giles: yen⁴
    • Yale: yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin⁶
    • Yale: yihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gān
    • Tâi-lô: gān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gan
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɡan²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡan⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngang³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋaŋ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjenH

Rime
Character	唁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	魚變切
Baxter	ngjenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋˠiᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋᵚiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋianH/
Li Rong	/ŋjɛnH/
Wang Li	/ŋĭɛnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋi̯ɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋrans/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	唁
Reading #	1/1
No.	14269
Phonetic component	言
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	彥
Old Chinese	/*ŋrans/

Definitions

唁

1. to offer condolences

Compounds

• 吊唁 (diàoyàn)
• 唁勞 / 唁劳
• 唁弔 / 唁吊
• 唁電 / 唁电 (yàndiàn)
• 弔唁 (diàoyàn)
• 慰唁
• 電唁 / 电唁 (diànyàn)

Japanese

Kanji

唁

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. express condolence

Readings

• On (unclassified): げん (gen)、ごん (gon)
• Kun: とむらう (tomurau)

Korean

Hanja

唁 • (eon) (hangeul 언, revised eon, McCune–Reischauer ŏn)

1. express condolence