羴

羴 U+7FB4, 羴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FB4 ← 羳 [U+7FB3] CJK Unified Ideographs 羵 → [U+7FB5]

Translingual

Han character

羴 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿手廿手手 (TQTQQ), composition ⿱羊⿰⺶羊 or ⿱羊⿰羊羊)

1. rank odour of sheep or goats

Derived characters

• 羼

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 954, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28566
• Dae Jaweon: page 1399, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3139, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7FB4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		羴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (羴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
羴	*qʰreːn, *qʰljen
羼	*skʰreːnʔ, *skʰraːns

Triplication of 羊.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shān (shan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zin¹ / saan¹ / sin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shān
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shan
    • Wade–Giles: shan¹
    • Yale: shān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shan
    • Palladius: шань (šanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zin¹ / saan¹ / sin¹
    • Yale: jīn / sāan / sīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin¹ / saan¹ / sin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jin¹ / san¹ / xin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn⁵⁵/, /saːn⁵⁵/, /siːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xean

Rime
Character	羴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	許閒切
Baxter	xean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠɛn/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚæn/
Shao Rongfen	/xæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/həɨn/
Li Rong	/xɛn/
Wang Li	/xæn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xăn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	haan1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.tan/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰreːn/, /*qʰljen/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	羴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shān
Middle Chinese	‹ syen ›
Old Chinese	/*s.tan/
English	smell of sheep
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	羴	羴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	11070	11073
Phonetic component	羴	羴
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	羴
Old Chinese	/*qʰreːn/	/*qʰljen/
Notes		許間切注又切說文作羶正體

Definitions

羴

1. (alt. form 羶, 膻) rank odor of sheep or goat
2. group of sheep or goat
3. a type of snuff

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 羴 – see 膻 (“centre of chest”). (This character is a variant form of 膻).

Japanese

Kanji

羴

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen)
• Kun: なまぐさい (namagusai)