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讓

讓

See also: 让 and 譲

Translingual

Traditional 讓
Shinjitai 譲
Simplified 让

Han character

讓 (radical 149 言+17, 24 strokes, cangjie input 卜口卜口女 (YRYRV), four-corner 00632, composition ⿰言襄)

References

  • KangXi: page 1187, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36139
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1651, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4032, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8B93

Chinese

trad. 讓
simp. 让

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (襄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
囊 *naːŋ
蠰 *naːŋ, *sraŋ, *hnjaŋs, *njaŋʔ
曩 *naːŋʔ
灢 *naːŋʔ, *naːŋs
儾 *naːŋs
孃 *naŋ, *njaŋ
瓤 *naŋ, *njaŋ
鑲 *naŋ, *njaŋ
釀 *naŋs
瓖 *snaŋ, *snaŋ
驤 *snaŋ
襄 *snaŋ
纕 *snaŋ
忀 *snaŋ
欀 *snaŋ, *njaŋs
饟 *hnjaŋ, *hnjaŋʔ, *hnjaŋs
攘 *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, *njaŋs
禳 *njaŋ
穰 *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ
躟 *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ
瀼 *njaŋ
獽 *njaŋ
儴 *njaŋ
蘘 *njaŋ
鬤 *njaŋ, *rnaːŋ
勷 *njaŋ
壤 *njaŋʔ
嚷 *njaŋʔ
讓 *njaŋs
懹 *njaŋs
攮 *rnoːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *njaŋs) : semantic 言 + phonetic 襄 ‎(OC *snaŋ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 讓
Mandarin Beijing /ʐɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /ʐaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /iɑŋ⁵³/
/ʐɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /ʐaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /iaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʐaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /ʐaŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /ʐɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʐɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /ʐɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /ʐɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /naŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /zaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /zaŋ²¹³/
Kunming /ʐã̠¹/
Nanjing /ʐaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʐɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /zɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ʐɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /ʐɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiã²³/
Suzhou /ȵiã³¹/
Hangzhou /zɑŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵi²²/
Hui Shexian /nia²²/
Tunxi /ȵiau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʐan⁵⁵/
/ʐan¹¹/
Xiangtan /ian²¹/
Gan Nanchang /ȵiɔŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /ioŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʒoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jœŋ²²/
Nanning /jœŋ²²/
Hong Kong /jœŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /liɔŋ²²/
/niu²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /nuɔŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /niɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ziaŋ³⁵/
/niõ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zaŋ³³/
Rime
Character 讓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 人樣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵɨaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ȵiaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ràng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 讓
Reading # 1/1
No. 13649
Phonetic
component		 襄
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 讓
Old
Chinese		 /*njaŋs/

Definitions

讓

  1. to allow; to let; to permit
    媽媽不讓我去。 / 妈妈不让我去。  ―  Māma bù ràng wǒ qù.  ―  Mum won't let me go.
  2. to yield; to concede
  3. by (passive signifier)
    行李讓雨給淋濕了。 [MSC, trad.]
    行李让雨给淋湿了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Xíngli ràng yǔ gěi lìnshī le. [Pinyin]
    The luggage was soaked by rain.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

讓

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 譲)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

讓 • ‎(yang) (hangeul 양)

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Vietnamese

Han character

讓 (nhượng, nhường, nhằng, nhàng, lâm)

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