# 沔

| 沔 | U+6C94, &#27796; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C94 |
| ← 沓 [U+6C93] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 沕 → [U+6C95] |

## Translingual
### Han character

沔 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水一中尸 (EMLS), four-corner 3112$_7$, composition ⿰氵丏)

#### Derived characters

* 𢚽, 𫦇

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 611, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17207
* Dae Jaweon: page 1004, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1560, character 2
* Unihan data for U+6C94

## Chinese

* 漢江 (中國) (Written Standard Chinese)
* Han River (Hubei) (English)
* 沔州

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 汅 | *menʔ |
| 沔 | *menʔ |
| 丏 | *meːnʔ |
| 眄 | *meːnʔ, *meːns |
| 麪 | *meːns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *menʔ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 丏 (OC *meːnʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): miǎn (mian$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): min$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bián
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: miǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: miǎn
*** Wade–Giles: mien$^3$
*** Yale: myǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mean
*** Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /mi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: min$^5$
*** Yale: míhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: min$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: min$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /miːn¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bián
*** Tâi-lô: bián
*** Phofsit Daibuun: biern
*** IPA (Xiamen): /biɛn⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛn⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛn⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /biɛn⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛn⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: mjienX
Rime :
| Character | 沔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 仙 (77) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 彌兖切 |
| Baxter | mjienX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /miᴇn$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /miɛn$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /mjæn$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mian$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /miɛn$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /mĭɛn$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /mi̯ɛn$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | miǎn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | min$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*m.nerʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*menʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 沔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | miǎn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ mjien$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*m.nerʔ/ |
| English | richly flowing stream |
| 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 | 沔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9059 |
| Phonetic component | 丏 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 緬 |
| Old Chinese | /*menʔ/ |

### Definitions

沔
* (～水) ancient name of Han river, a tributary of the Yangtze river
* (～州) (historical) name of prefecture in Hubei province during Western Wei, Sui and Tang dynasties
* (～州) (historical) name of prefecture in Shaanxi province during Southern Song period (1127-1279)
* (archaic) overflowing; full; inundated with water
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 湎 (miǎn, “to indulge in; to wallow in”)

### Compounds

* 沔城 (Miǎnchéng)
* 沔水
* 沔沔
* 沔陽 / 沔阳 (Miǎnyáng)
* 流沔
* 湛沔
* 渺沔

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): べん (ben)、めん (men)、びん (bin)、みん (min)

## Korean
### Hanja

沔 • (myeon) (hangeul 면, revised myeon, McCune–Reischauer myŏn, Yale myen)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

沔: Hán Nôm readings: miền, miện, miên
* chữ Nôm form of miền (“region, district”).

#### References

* Nom Foundation