鴛

鴛 U+9D1B, 鴛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D1B ← 鴚 [U+9D1A] CJK Unified Ideographs 鴜 → [U+9D1C]

鴛 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓山竹日火 (NUHAF), four-corner 2732₇, composition ⿱夗鳥)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1485, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46795
• Dae Jaweon: page 2017, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4625, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9D1B

trad.		鴛
simp.		鸳

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *quːn, *qon) : phonetic 夗 (OC *qonʔ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

Starostin reconstructs Old Chinese *ʔʷar, which he compares to Tibetan སྐྱར་པོ (skyar po, “snipe; woodcock”); both are from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɣʷăr.

鴛

1. male mandarin duck (when used in 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng))
2. Alternative form of 鵷／鹓 (yuān)

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鸳”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 293.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: おん (on)
• Kan-on: えん (en)、おん (on)
• Kun: おしどり (oshidori)

鴛 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

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鴛: Hán Nôm readings: uyên, oan

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