嚶

See also: 嘤

嚶 U+56B6, 嚶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56B6 ← 嚵 [U+56B5] CJK Unified Ideographs 嚷 → [U+56B7]

Translingual

Han character

嚶 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 口月金女 (RBCV), four-corner 6604₄, composition ⿰口嬰)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 214, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4592
• Dae Jaweon: page 437, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 704, character 1
• Unihan data for U+56B6

Chinese

trad.		嚶
simp.		嘤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嚶
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
瀴	*qreːŋs, *mqeːŋʔ, *qeːŋʔ
甖	*qreːŋ
鸚	*qreːŋ
櫻	*qreːŋ
嚶	*qreːŋ
罌	*qreːŋ
鸎	*qreːŋ
譻	*qreːŋ
賏	*qreŋs, *qeŋ
嬰	*qeŋ
瓔	*qeŋ
纓	*qeŋ
攖	*qeŋ
蘡	*qeŋ
癭	*qeŋʔ
廮	*qeŋʔ
巊	*qeːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qreːŋ): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 嬰 (OC *qeŋ).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīng (ying¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ying
    • Wade–Giles: ying¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ing
    • Palladius: ин (in)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jing¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'eang

Rime
Character	嚶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	烏莖切
Baxter	'eang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠɛŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚæŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɐŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔɛŋ/
Wang Li	/æŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔæŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ang1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qreːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嚶
Reading #	1/1
No.	15330
Phonetic component	賏
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甖
Old Chinese	/*qreːŋ/

Definitions

嚶

1. (onomatopoeia) the call of a bird
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Compounds

• 嚘嚶 / 嚘嘤
• 嚶喔 / 嘤喔
• 嚶嚀 / 嘤咛
• 嚶嚶 / 嘤嘤 (yīngyīng)
• 嚶鳴求友 / 嘤鸣求友

Pronunciation 2

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹an

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• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹an
    • MiniDict: an^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹an
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ã⁵³/

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Definitions

嚶

1. (Shanghainese, onomatopoeia) the sound made when lulling a child to sleep by song
2. (Shanghainese) to lull or console a child by humming
3. (Taizhou Wu) to hum; to quietly sing

   小歌嚶嚶／小歌嘤嘤 [Wu]  ―  to hum a tune away

Japanese

Kanji

嚶

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. chirping
2. birds singing together

Readings

• On (unclassified): おう (ō)
• Kun: なく (naku)

Korean

Hanja

嚶 • (aeng) (hangeul 앵, revised aeng, McCune–Reischauer aeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嚶: Hán Nôm readings: inh

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