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)

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 () (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

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/

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
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qʰreːn/	/*qʰljen/
Notes		許間切注又切說文作羶正體

Definitions

羴

(alt. form 羶, 膻) rank odor of sheep or goat
group of sheep or goat
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, 羴い)