鄢 · yān
name of a district in Honan
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
name of a district in Honan
- Mandarin
- yān
- Cantonese
- jin1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 鄢 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 언
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+9122
- Radical
- 邑 · 163
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 11
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 鄢
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 焉 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 焉聲
Line 11776 · ⿰焉阝 · 焉聲 · source reference 2290910
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- 'jen · 於乾 反切 · #642
- Middle Chinese
- 'jonX · 於幰 反切 · #1517
- Middle Chinese
- 'jonH · 於建 反切 · #2601
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 5143 · 'jen = 山開三平仙影 · 'jonX = 山開三上元影 · 'jonH = 山開三去元影
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yān
- kCantonese
- jin1
- kDefinition
- name of a district in Honan
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 163.11
- kTGH
- 2013:5351
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- yān 63791.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yān 1322.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yān 421.140
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- yān粵jin1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 於乾 於幰 於建
- Kangxi positions
- 1277.040
- Guangyun positions
- 143.35 280.23 398.36
- Cangjie
- MFNL
- Four-corner
- 1732.7