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Translingual

Han character

(radical 122 +5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 田中口女心 (WLRVP), four-corner 60747, composition)

  1. animal trap

References

  • KangXi: page 947, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28249
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1388, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2916, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+7F60

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*miːn
*min
*min, *minʔ
*min, *mɯːn
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin, *minʔ
*mrin
*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
*minʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mɯn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚin/
Shao
Rongfen
/mien/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mjin/
Li
Rong
/mjĕn/
Wang
Li
/mǐĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mín
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9135
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mrin/

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (mín, “fishing line”).
  2. (literary) animal trap

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
わな
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana わな, romaji wana)

  1. a trap, a snare
  2. a trick, a prank

Derived terms

Idioms

See also

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(min) (hangeul , revised min, McCune-Reischauer min, Yale min)

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