"鄢" meaning in Chinese

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Character

IPA: /jɛn⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /jiːn⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /iɛn⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Sinological-IPA, Xiamen], /iɛn³³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Sinological-IPA, Quanzhou], /iɛn⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Sinological-IPA, Zhangzhou], /iɛn⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Sinological-IPA, Taipei], /iɛn⁴⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Sinological-IPA, Kaohsiung]
Etymology: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans): phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan) + semantic 阝 (“city”). Etymology templates: {{yesno||p|P}} P, {{categorize|zh|Han phono-semantic compounds}}, {{liushu|psc|adj=|nocap=|pron=OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans}} Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans), {{Han compound|焉|邑|alt2=阝|c1=p|c2=s|ls=psc|t2=city}} Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans): phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan) + semantic 阝 (“city”) Head templates: {{head|zh|hanzi}} 鄢
  1. name of a district in Henan
    Sense id: en-鄢-zh-character-FX8jWqbn Categories (other): Chinese hanzi Disambiguation of Chinese hanzi: 41 59
  2. a surname
    Sense id: en-鄢-zh-character-v2O7m9sM Categories (other): Chinese surnames, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Chinese hanzi, Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of Chinese hanzi: 41 59 Disambiguation of Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 44 56 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 44 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 鄢城 (Yānchéng), 鄢港 (Yāngǎng), 鄢郝 (Yānhǎo), 鄢陵 (Yānlíng)
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Yānchéng",
      "word": "鄢城"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Yāngǎng",
      "word": "鄢港"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Yānhǎo",
      "word": "鄢郝"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Yānlíng",
      "word": "鄢陵"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "p",
        "3": "P"
      },
      "expansion": "P",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "Han phono-semantic compounds"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "psc",
        "adj": "",
        "nocap": "",
        "pron": "OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans"
      },
      "expansion": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans)",
      "name": "liushu"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "焉",
        "2": "邑",
        "alt2": "阝",
        "c1": "p",
        "c2": "s",
        "ls": "psc",
        "t2": "city"
      },
      "expansion": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans): phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan) + semantic 阝 (“city”)",
      "name": "Han compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans): phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan) + semantic 阝 (“city”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "hanzi"
      },
      "expansion": "鄢",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese hanzi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              32,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              82,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.",
          "ref": " Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the \"Spring and Autumn Annals\" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg",
          "roman": "Xià, wǔyuè, Zhèng Bó kè Duàn yú Yān.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "夏,五月,鄭伯克段于鄢。",
          "translation": "In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              32,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              82,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.",
          "ref": " Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the \"Spring and Autumn Annals\" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg",
          "roman": "Xià, wǔyuè, Zhèng Bó kè Duàn yú Yān.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "夏,五月,郑伯克段于鄢。",
          "translation": "In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "name of a district in Henan"
      ],
      "id": "en-鄢-zh-character-FX8jWqbn",
      "links": [
        [
          "Henan",
          "Henan"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese hanzi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a surname"
      ],
      "id": "en-鄢-zh-character-v2O7m9sM",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yān (yan¹)"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄧㄢ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jin¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄧㄢ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yen¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "roman": "janʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "янь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jɛn⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jin¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yīn"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jin¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yin¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jiːn⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iefn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "鄢"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese hanzi",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese proper nouns",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 鄢",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "Yānchéng",
      "word": "鄢城"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Yāngǎng",
      "word": "鄢港"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Yānhǎo",
      "word": "鄢郝"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Yānlíng",
      "word": "鄢陵"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "p",
        "3": "P"
      },
      "expansion": "P",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "Han phono-semantic compounds"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "categorize"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "psc",
        "adj": "",
        "nocap": "",
        "pron": "OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans"
      },
      "expansion": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans)",
      "name": "liushu"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "焉",
        "2": "邑",
        "alt2": "阝",
        "c1": "p",
        "c2": "s",
        "ls": "psc",
        "t2": "city"
      },
      "expansion": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans): phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan) + semantic 阝 (“city”)",
      "name": "Han compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qran, *qanʔ, *qans): phonetic 焉 (OC *qran, *ɢan, *qan) + semantic 阝 (“city”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "hanzi"
      },
      "expansion": "鄢",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              32,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              82,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.",
          "ref": " Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the \"Spring and Autumn Annals\" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg",
          "roman": "Xià, wǔyuè, Zhèng Bó kè Duàn yú Yān.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "夏,五月,鄭伯克段于鄢。",
          "translation": "In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              32,
              35
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              11
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              82,
              85
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.",
          "ref": " Commentary of Zuo, c. 4ᵗʰ century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the \"Spring and Autumn Annals\" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg",
          "roman": "Xià, wǔyuè, Zhèng Bó kè Duàn yú Yān.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "夏,五月,郑伯克段于鄢。",
          "translation": "In summer, in the fifth month, the Liege of Zheng overcame Duan (Gongshu Duan) at Yan.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "name of a district in Henan"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Henan",
          "Henan"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese surnames"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a surname"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yān (yan¹)"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄧㄢ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jin¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄧㄢ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yan"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yen¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yān"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "roman": "janʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "янь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jɛn⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jin¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yīn"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jin¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "yin¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/jiːn⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "iefn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/iɛn⁴⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "鄢"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (cdfa371 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.