# 臠

| 臠 | U+81E0, &#33248; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81E0 |
| ← 臟 [U+81DF] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 臡 → [U+81E1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

臠 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+19, 25 strokes, cangjie input 女火人月人 (VFOBO), four-corner 2222$_7$, composition ⿱龻肉)

#### Derived characters

* 𡆝, 癵

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 998, character 31
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30049
* Dae Jaweon: page 1449, character 26
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2934, character 9
* Unihan data for U+81E0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 蠻 | *mroːn |
| 矕 | *mroːnʔ |
| 變 | *prons |
| 鸞 | *b·roːn |
| 巒 | *b·roːn |
| 灤 | *b·roːn |
| 欒 | *b·roːn |
| 鑾 | *b·roːn |
| 臠 | *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ |
| 羉 | *b·roːn |
| 䜌 | *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons |
| 灓 | *b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons |
| 圝 | *b·roːn |
| 曫 | *b·roːn |
| 孿 | *smroːns, *smrons |
| 彎 | *qroːn |
| 灣 | *qroːn |
| 攣 | *b·ron |
| 孌 | *b·ronʔ, *b·rons |
| 戀 | *b·rons |
| 㪻 | *pʰlons, *klons |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ) : phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons) + semantic 肉 (“meat”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): luán, lüǎn (luan$^2$, lüan$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄢˊ, ㄌㄩㄢˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lyun$^5$ / lyun$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: luán
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: luán
*** Wade–Giles: luan$^2$
*** Yale: lwán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luan
*** Palladius: луань (luanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /lu̯än³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, variant in Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lüǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄩㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lyuǎn
*** Wade–Giles: lüan$^3$
*** Yale: lywǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leuan
*** Palladius: люань (ljuanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ly̯ɛn²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lyun$^5$ / lyun$^4$
*** Yale: lyúhn / lyùhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lyn$^5$ / lyn$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lün$^5$ / lün$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lyːn¹³/, /lyːn²¹/
* Middle Chinese: lwan, ljwenX
Rime :
| Character | 臠 | 臠 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 桓 (62) | 仙 (78) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | III |
| Fanqie | 落官切 | 力兖切 |
| Baxter | lwan | ljwenX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /luɑn/ | /liuᴇn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /lʷɑn/ | /lʷiɛn$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /luɑn/ | /ljuæn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lwan/ | /lwian$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /luɑn/ | /liuɛn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /luɑn/ | /lĭwɛn$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /luɑn/ | /li̯wɛn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | luán | luǎn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lyun$^4$ | lyun$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*b·roːn/, /*b·ronʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 臠 | 臠 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 8618 | 8630 |
| Phonetic component |  |  |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 鑾 | 臠 |
| Old Chinese | /*b·roːn/ | /*b·ronʔ/ |

### Definitions

臠
* (literary) to cut meat into small pieces
* (literary) small piece of meat
    From: Huainanzi, 2nd century BCE
    cháng yī luán ròu, zhī yī huò zhī wèi [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

### Compounds

* 嘗鼎一臠／尝鼎一脔 (chángdǐngyīluán)
* 大臠／大脔
* 禁臠／禁脔 (jìnluán)
* 臠制／脔制
* 臠割／脔割
* 臠股／脔股
* 臠膾／脔脍
* 臠臠／脔脔
* 臠身／脔身

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03731
* “臠”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* chopped meat
* slice of meat

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): れん (ren)
* Kun: きりみ (kirimi)、ししむら (shishimura)

## Korean
### Hanja

臠 • (ryeon>yeon) (hangeul 련>연, revised ryeon>yeon, McCune–Reischauer ryŏn>yŏn, Yale lyen>yen)
* 저민 고기: sliced meat