蜑

See also: 疍

蜑 U+8711, 蜑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8711 ← 蜐 [U+8710] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜒 → [U+8712]

Translingual

Han character

蜑 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓一中一戈 (NMLMI), four-corner 1113₆, composition ⿱延虫)

Derived characters

• 𦿸

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1085, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33119
• Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2850, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8711

Chinese

trad.		蜑
simp. #		蜑
alternative forms		蛋 疍 蜒 𣇇

Glyph origin

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 *l'aːnʔ): phonetic 延 (OC *lan, *lans) + semantic 虫 (“snake”).

Compare 閩／闽 (“Min”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan⁶
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): dang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴
    • Yale: dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: daan⁶
    • Yale: daahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dang⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tăng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: danX

Rime
Character	蜑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒旱切
Baxter	danX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑnX/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑnX/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/danX/
Li Rong	/dɑnX/
Wang Li	/dɑnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	daan6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜑
Reading #	1/1
No.	14244
Phonetic component	延
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	但
Old Chinese	/*l'aːnʔ/

Definitions

蜑

1. the Tanka people of southern China and Vietnam

   See also: 蜑家

   • 欽民有五種……五曰蜑人，以舟為室，浮海而生，語似福、廣，雜以廣東、西之音。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     钦民有五种……五曰蜑人，以舟为室，浮海而生，语似福、广，杂以广东、西之音。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Zhou Qufei, Representative Answers from the Region beyond the Mountains, 12^th century CE

     Qīn mín yǒu wǔ zhǒng...... Wǔ yuē dàn rén, yǐ zhōu wéi shì, fú hǎi ér shēng, yǔ sì Fú, Guǎng, zá yǐ Guǎngdōng, xī zhī yīn. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. alternative form of 蛋 (dàn, “egg”)

Compounds

• 蜑家 (dànjiā)
• 蜑民 (dànmín)

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 蜑

蜑

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): たん (tan)
• Kun: あま (ama, 蜑)

References

• “^▲蜑”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

蜑 (eum 단 (dan))

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