# 㫃

| 㫃 | U+3AC3, &#15043; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-3AC3 |
| ← 㫂 [U+3AC2] | CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A | 㫄 → [U+3AC4] |

## Translingual
### Alternative forms

* 𭤨 (when used as a component)

### Han character

㫃 (Kangxi radical 70, 方+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人 (YSO), composition ⿰方人)

#### Derived characters

* 𪥏, 𬀁, 𣃘, 𣃢, 㫅

#### Related characters

* 倝

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 481, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2174, character 1
* Unihan data for U+3AC3

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 㫃 :
| Shang | Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Ancient script | Small seal script |
Pictogram (象形) – a flag on a pole with a decoration of top. Today, the flag (unrelated to 人) is detached from the pole with decoration, stylized as 方. Related to 倝 but both are unrelated to 朝.
The character today appears as 𭤨 when next to another component (e.g., 旅 and 游); the top component, despite its appearance, is unrelated to 伤, 乞, and 每.

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yǎn (yan$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jin$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yǎn
*** Wade–Giles: yen$^3$
*** Yale: yǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yean
*** Palladius: янь (janʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɛn²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jin$^2$
*** Yale: yín
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jin$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yin$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːn³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: 'jonX, 'jenX
Rime :
| Character | 㫃 | 㫃 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 元 (65) | 仙 (79) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 於幰切 | 於蹇切 |
| Baxter | 'jonX | 'jenX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔɨɐn$^X$/ | /ʔˠiᴇn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔiɐn$^X$/ | /ʔᵚiɛn$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔiɐn$^X$/ | /ʔiæn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔɨan$^X$/ | /ʔian$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔiɐn$^X$/ | /ʔjɛn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ĭɐn$^X$/ | /ĭɛn$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ʔɨ̯ɐn$^X$/ | /ʔi̯ɛn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yǎn | yǎn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jin$^2$ | jin$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qarʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 㫃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yǎn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔjon$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*qarʔ/ |
| English | fluttering streamer |
| 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. ||

#### Definitions

㫃
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) appearance of flags flying

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 㫃 – see 偃 (“used in personal names”). (This character is an ancient form of 偃).

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C04746
* “㫃”, 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–