鼴

See also: 鼹

鼴 U+9F34, 鼴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F34 ← 鼳 [U+9F33] CJK Unified Ideographs 鼵 → [U+9F35]

Translingual

Han character

鼴 (Kangxi radical 208, 鼠+9, 22 strokes, cangjie input 竹女尸日女 (HVSAV), four-corner 7171₄(GKP) or 7171₁(HTJK), composition ⿰鼠匽(GKP) or ⿺鼠匽(HTJK))

1. mole; Talpidae species (various)
2. a kind of insectivorous rodent

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1529, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48464
• Dae Jaweon: page 2065, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4776, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9F34

Chinese

trad.		鼴/鼹
simp.		鼹
alternative forms		𪕤 𲎠 蝘 obsolete

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
堰	*qrens, *qanʔ, *qans
躽	*qrens, *qeːnʔ
宴	*qeːnʔ, *qeːns
蝘	*qeːnʔ, *qanʔ
偃	*qanʔ
郾	*qanʔ, *qans
鶠	*qanʔ
褗	*qanʔ, *qans
匽	*qanʔ
鼴	*qanʔ
鰋	*qanʔ
揠	*qreːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qanʔ): semantic 鼠 (“rat”) + phonetic 匽 (OC *qanʔ).

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎn (yan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǎn
    • Wade–Giles: yen³
    • Yale: yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin²
    • Yale: yín
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jonX

Rime
Character	鼴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	元 (65)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於幰切
Baxter	'jonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨɐnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɐnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiɐnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨanX/
Li Rong	/ʔiɐnX/
Wang Li	/ĭɐnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɨ̯ɐnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qanʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鼴
Reading #	1/1
No.	14390
Phonetic component	妟
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	偃
Old Chinese	/*qanʔ/

Definitions

鼴

1. mole; mole-rat
2. (historical) legendary beast with a rat-like head and the size of a bull

   Synonym: 鼳 (jú)

   • 鼴鼠出滄州及胡中，似牛而鼠首黑足，大者千斤，多伏于水。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     鼹鼠出沧州及胡中，似牛而鼠首黑足，大者千斤，多伏于水。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Compendium of Materia Medica [Bencao Gangmu], by Li Shizhen, 1578 CE

     Yǎnshǔ chū Cāngzhōu jí Hú zhōng, sì niú ér shǔ shǒu hēi zú, dà zhě qiānjīn, duō fú yú shuǐ. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Compounds

• 蜩鼴 / 蜩鼹
• 貂鼴 / 貂鼹
• 鼴腹 / 鼹腹
• 鼴鼠 / 鼹鼠 (yǎnshǔ)

References

• 羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “鼴”, in 漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04791

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 鼴

鼴

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): えん (en)、おん (on)
• Kun: もぐら (mogura)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
鼴
もぐら Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鼴 – see the following entry.

【土竜もぐら】 [noun] a mole (burrowing insectivore) Alternative spellings 鼹鼠, モグラ

(This term, 鼴, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Usage notes

The もぐら spelling may be more common for this word in general use.

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as モグラ (mogura).

Korean

Hanja

鼴 • (eon) (hangeul 언, revised eon, McCune–Reischauer ŏn, Yale en)

1. mole (burrowing insectivore)

   Synonyms: 두더지 (dudeoji), 鼢 (분, bun), 鼹 (언, eon)

Vietnamese

Han character

鼴: Hán Nôm readings: yển

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