蜿蜒
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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蜿 | 蜒 |
えん Hyōgaiji |
えん Hyōgaiji |
on’yomi |
Etymology
/weɴeɴ/ → /eɴeɴ/
From Middle Chinese 蜿蜒 (MC ʔʉɐn|ʔuɑn|ʔʉɐnX jiᴇn, literally “wriggle, wind + stretch for a long distance”). Compare modern Mandarin reading wānyán.
Adjective
蜿蜒 (-tari inflection, hiragana えんえん, rōmaji en'en, historical hiragana ゑんえん)
- meandering, winding
- 1905: 韓國誌 (Kankoku-shi, “Korea Chronicle”), 農商務省 (Nōshōmushō, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce) (in Japanese), Tōkyō (text here):
- …此村ヨリ河ノ谷ハ五里二十町ノ間蜿蜒タル峽地ヲ形ツクリ…
- …kono mura yori kawa no tani wa go ri nijū chō no aida en'en taru kyōchi o katachi tsukuri…
- ...from this village, the river valley takes the form of a meandering gorge for a distance of five li and twenty chō [approx. 22km]...
- …此村ヨリ河ノ谷ハ五里二十町ノ間蜿蜒タル峽地ヲ形ツクリ…
- 1905: 韓國誌 (Kankoku-shi, “Korea Chronicle”), 農商務省 (Nōshōmushō, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce) (in Japanese), Tōkyō (text here):
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