漁人

See also: 渔人

Chinese

		fisherman; to fish	man; person; people
trad. (漁人)		漁	人
simp. (渔人)		渔	人

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yúrén

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ ㄖㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyu⁴ jan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yúrén
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ ㄖㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yúrén
    • Wade–Giles: yü²-jên²
    • Yale: yú-rén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuren
    • Palladius: юйжэнь (jujžɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y³⁵ ʐən³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jyu⁴ jan⁴
    • Yale: yùh yàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jy⁴ jan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yu⁴ yen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyː²¹ jɐn²¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Middle Chinese: ngjo nyin

Rime
Character	漁	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	語居切	如鄰切
Baxter	ngjo	nyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨʌ/	/ȵiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋiɔ/	/ȵin/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiɔ/	/ȵʑjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɨə̆/	/ȵin/
Li Rong	/ŋiɔ/	/ȵiĕn/
Wang Li	/ŋĭo/	/ȵʑĭĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋi̯wo/	/ȵʑi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yú	rén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyu4	jan4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ](r)a  ni[ŋ]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋa  njin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	漁	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú	rén
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjo ›	‹ nyin ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ](r)a/	/*ni[ŋ]/
English	to fish	(other) person
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	漁	人
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	15940	10800
Phonetic component	魚	人
Rime group	魚	眞
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	魚	仁
Old Chinese	/*ŋa/	/*njin/
Notes	魚分化字

Noun

漁人

1. fisher; fisherman

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 漁民 (“fisher; fisherman”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		漁人, 漁夫, 漁翁 old
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		漁民, 漁人, 漁夫, 漁翁 old
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	漁民, 漁夫
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	打魚子
Cantonese	Guangzhou	漁民, 打魚佬
	Hong Kong	漁民, 漁夫
	Dongguan	打魚佬
Hakka	Meixian	漁民
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	漁民
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	漁民
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	漁民
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	漁民
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	漁民
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	漁民
Southern Min	Xiamen	討海仔
	Kaohsiung	討掠的
	Yilan	討海的
	Changhua (Lukang)	掠魚的
	Taichung	討海的
	Taichung (Wuqi)	掠魚的
	Tainan	討掠的, 討海的
	Taitung	討海儂
	Hsinchu	討海的
	Penghu (Magong)	討海儂
	Manila (Hokkien)	掠魚儂, 討魚儂
	Shantou	漁民
Wu	Shanghai	捉魚個
	Suzhou	網船浪葛
	Wenzhou	打魚人
Xiang	Hengyang	打魚個

Derived terms

• 漁人碼頭 / 渔人码头 (Yúrénmǎtóu)

 

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
漁	人
ぎょ Grade: 4	じん Grade: 1
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 漁人 (MC ngjo nyin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡʲo̞ʑĩɴ]

Noun

漁(ぎょ)人(じん) • (gyojin) ^{←ぎよじん (gyozin)?}

1. (literary) fisher

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
漁	人
すなど Grade: 4	り Grade: 1
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 漁人 – see the following entry.

【すなどり】 [noun] 漁り, 漁人: (archaic) fisher Alternative spelling 漁り

(This term, 漁人, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)