堰

堰 U+5830, 堰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5830
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[U+582F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 報 →
[U+5831]

Translingual

Han character

堰 (radical 32, 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土尸日女 (GSAV), four-corner 41114, composition ⿰土匽)

References
  • KangXi: page 234, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5274
  • Dae Jaweon: page 471, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 461, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5830

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 堰

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (妟) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
堰 *qrens, *qanʔ, *qans
躽 *qrens, *qeːnʔ
宴 *qeːnʔ, *qeːns
蝘 *qeːnʔ, *qanʔ
偃 *qanʔ
郾 *qanʔ, *qans
鶠 *qanʔ
褗 *qanʔ, *qans
匽 *qanʔ
鼴 *qanʔ
鰋 *qanʔ
揠 *qreːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qrens, *qanʔ, *qans) : semantic 土 (“earth, ground”) + phonetic 匽 (OC *qanʔ).

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 堰 堰 堰
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 元 (65) 元 (65) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) III III III
Fanqie 於幰切 於建切 於扇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɨɐnX/ /ʔɨɐnH/ /ʔiᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔiɐnX/ /ʔiɐnH/ /ʔiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiɐnX/ /ʔiɐnH/ /ʔjænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔɨanX/ /ʔɨanH/ /ʔianH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiɐnX/ /ʔiɐnH/ /ʔiɛnH/
Wang
Li		 /ĭɐnX/ /ĭɐnH/ /ĭɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔɨ̯ɐnX/ /ʔɨ̯ɐnH/ /ʔi̯ɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎn yàn yàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 堰 堰 堰
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 14378 14388 14393
Phonetic
component		 妟 妟 妟
Rime
group		 元 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 2 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 躽 偃 堰
Old
Chinese		 /*qrens/ /*qanʔ/ /*qans/

Definitions

堰

  1. weir
  2. dam
  3. embankment; dike; bank

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji
堰

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. dam
  2. prevent
  3. stop up

Readings
  • Go-on: えん (en)
  • Kan-on: えん (en)
  • Kun: せき (seki, 堰); せく (seku, 堰く)

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
堰
せき
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

堰 (hiragana せき, rōmaji seki)

  1. weir, dam
Usage notes

In technical contexts this is distinguished from dam.

Synonyms

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
堰
い
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

堰 (hiragana い, rōmaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

  1. a dike or levee for containing water

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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

Korean

Hanja

堰 • (eon) (hangeul 언, revised eon, McCune–Reischauer ŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

堰 (yển)

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References
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