# 鴦

| 鴦 | U+9D26, &#40230; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9D26 |
| ← 鴥 [U+9D25] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鴧 → [U+9D27] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鴦 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 中大竹日火 (LKHAF), four-corner 5032$_7$, composition ⿱央鳥)
* female mandarin duck

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1487, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46822
* Dae Jaweon: page 2018, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4623, character 14
* Unihan data for U+9D26

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鴦 | *qaːŋ, *qaŋ |
| 佒 | *qaːŋ |
| 咉 | *qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ |
| 眏 | *qaːŋ |
| 姎 | *qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ |
| 坱 | *qaːŋʔ |
| 映 | *qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs |
| 泱 | *qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ |
| 盎 | *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs |
| 駚 | *qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ |
| 軮 | *qaːŋʔ |
| 醠 | *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs |
| 央 | *qaŋ |
| 秧 | *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ |
| 殃 | *qaŋ |
| 鞅 | *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs |
| 鉠 | *qaŋ, *qraŋ |
| 雵 | *qaŋ |
| 胦 | *qaŋ, *qroːŋ |
| 柍 | *qaŋʔ |
| 詇 | *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs |
| 岟 | *qaŋʔ |
| 炴 | *qaŋʔ |
| 怏 | *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs |
| 紻 | *qaŋʔ |
| 英 | *qraŋ |
| 瑛 | *qraŋ |
| 霙 | *qraŋ |
| 韺 | *qraŋ |
| 媖 | *qraŋ |
| 渶 | *qraŋ |
| 鶧 | *qraŋ |
| 楧 | *qraŋ |
| 暎 | *qraŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːŋ, *qaŋ) : phonetic 央 (OC *qaŋ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”).

### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yāng (yang$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yông
* Eastern Min (BUC): iŏng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ieo$^1$ / iuⁿ$^1$ / yong$^1$ / yeng$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iuⁿ / ioⁿ / iong
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$ian
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yāng
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄤ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yang
*** Wade–Giles: yang$^1$
*** Yale: yāng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iang
*** Palladius: ян (jan)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɑŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: joeng$^1$
*** Yale: yēung
*** Cantonese Pinyin: joeng$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yêng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /jœːŋ⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
*** Hakka Romanization System: iong$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: yong$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /i̯oŋ²⁴/
** (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
*** Hakka Romanization System: (r)iong$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: yong$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯oŋ²⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: iŏng
*** Sinological IPA : /yoŋ⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: ieo$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /ieu⁵³³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: iuⁿ$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /ĩũ⁵³³/
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: yong$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /yɒŋ⁵³³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: yeng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /yøŋ⁵³³/
* ieo1/iuⁿ1 - vernacular;
* yong1/yeng1 - literary.
* Middle Chinese: 'jang, 'ang
Rime :
| Character | 鴦 | 鴦 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (105) | 唐 (101) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 於良切 | 烏郎切 |
| Baxter | 'jang | 'ang |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔɨɐŋ/ | /ʔɑŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔiɐŋ/ | /ʔɑŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔiɑŋ/ | /ʔɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔɨaŋ/ | /ʔaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔiaŋ/ | /ʔɑŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /ĭaŋ/ | /ɑŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔi̯aŋ/ | /ʔɑŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yāng | āng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | joeng$^1$ | ong$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔaŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qaːŋ/, /*qaŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 鴦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yāng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔjang › |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔaŋ/ |
| English | female mandarin duck |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 鴦 | 鴦 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 14472 | 14491 |
| Phonetic component | 央 | 央 |
| Rime group | 陽 | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 鴦 | 央 |
| Old Chinese | /*qaːŋ/ | /*qaŋ/ |

### Definitions

鴦
* female mandarin duck
    鴛鴦／鸳鸯 ― yuānyāng ― mandarin duck

### Compounds

* 亂點鴛鴦／乱点鸳鸯
* 同命鴛鴦／同命鸳鸯
* 被底鴛鴦／被底鸳鸯
* 野鴛鴦／野鸳鸯
* 鴛鴦／鸳鸯 (yuānyāng)
* 鴛鴦客／鸳鸯客
* 鴛鴦房／鸳鸯房
* 鴛鴦折頸／鸳鸯折颈
* 鴛鴦樓／鸳鸯楼
* 鴛鴦湖／鸳鸯湖
* 鴛鴦燈／鸳鸯灯
* 鴛鴦瓦／鸳鸯瓦
* 鴛鴦被／鸳鸯被
* 鴦龜／鸯龟

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鸯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 277.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: おう (ō)
* Kan-on: よう (yō)、おう (ō)
* Kun: おしどり (oshidori)

## Korean
### Hanja

鴦 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang, Yale ang)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

鴦: Hán Nôm readings: ương
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