縺

縺 U+7E3A, 縺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E3A ← 縹 [U+7E39] CJK Unified Ideographs 縻 → [U+7E3B]

Translingual

Han character

縺 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜十十 (VFYJJ), four-corner 2593₀, composition ⿰糹連)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 936, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27838
• Dae Jaweon: page 1375, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3441, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7E3A

Chinese

trad.		縺
simp.		𦈐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
連	*ren
漣	*ren
鰱	*ren
翴	*ren
鏈	*ren, *rens, *r̥ʰen
璉	*renʔ
僆	*renʔ, *reːns
摙	*renʔ, *rens
蓮	*renʔ, *reːn
嗹	*reːn
縺	*reːn

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lián (lian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lián
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lián
    • Wade–Giles: lien²
    • Yale: lyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lian
    • Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lin⁴
    • Yale: lìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: len

Rime
Character	縺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	落賢切
Baxter	len
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/len/
Pan Wuyun	/len/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛn/
Li Rong	/len/
Wang Li	/lien/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lián
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lin4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*reːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	縺
Reading #	1/1
No.	8006
Phonetic component	連
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	蓮
Old Chinese	/*reːn/

Definitions

縺

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Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 縺

縺

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. entangled threads
2. entanglement
3. complications
4. trouble

Readings

• Go-on: れん (ren)
• Kan-on: れん (ren)
• Kun: もつれ (motsure, 縺れ)、もつれる (motsureru, 縺れる)

Usage notes

This character, along with 繧 and 繝 often appear as a result of 文(も)字(じ)化(ば)け (mojibake), as the hiragana and katakana corrupt to them when mojibake occurs going from UTF-8 to Shift-JIS. As such, they frequently appear in works where mojibake is used for artistic effect.

Vietnamese

Han character

Readings

縺: Hán Việt readings: liên (落(lạc)賢(hiền)切(thiết))
縺: Nôm readings: len, liên

Synonyms

• 連 (liên)

References

• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)