宴

宴 U+5BB4, 宴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BB4 ← 害 [U+5BB3] CJK Unified Ideographs 宵 → [U+5BB5]

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order

宴 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十日女 (JAV), four-corner 3040₄, composition ⿱宀妟)

Derived characters

• 𠻈, 𡏉, 𦞷, 𥉛, 𲎠, 𡪻, 𮭍, 𦶳

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 286, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7166
• Dae Jaweon: page 565, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 933, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BB4

Chinese

trad.		宴
simp. #		宴
alternative forms		讌／宴 醼／宴

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
堰	*qrens, *qanʔ, *qans
躽	*qrens, *qeːnʔ
宴	*qeːnʔ, *qeːns
蝘	*qeːnʔ, *qanʔ
偃	*qanʔ
郾	*qanʔ, *qans
鶠	*qanʔ
褗	*qanʔ, *qans
匽	*qanʔ
鼴	*qanʔ
鰋	*qanʔ
揠	*qreːd

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qeːnʔ, *qeːns) : semantic 宀 + phonetic 妟 () - a woman in peaceful background (a roof and the sun). However, the appearence of the character, its meaning and his ancient pronunciation could link this character to 安.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	宴	宴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	於殄切	於甸切
Baxter	'enX	'enH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔenX/	/ʔenH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔenX/	/ʔenH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛnX/	/ʔɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛnX/	/ʔɛnH/
Li Rong	/ʔenX/	/ʔenH/
Wang Li	/ienX/	/ienH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔienX/	/ʔienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎn	yàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin2	jin3

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	宴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yàn
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔenH ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁe[n]-s/
English	feast (n.)
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	宴	宴
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14380	14383
Phonetic component	妟	妟
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蝘	宴
Old Chinese	/*qeːnʔ/	/*qeːns/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàn (yan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): yen / yan

  (Hailu, HRS): rhan^ˇ

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): eng⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iàn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ang³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàn
    • Wade–Giles: yen⁴
    • Yale: yàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yann
    • Palladius: янь (janʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jin³
    • Yale: yin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yen
    • Hakka Romanization System: ien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /i̯en⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yan
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ian
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i̯an⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: rhan^ˇ
    • Sinological IPA: /ʒan¹¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: eng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iàn
    • Tâi-lô: iàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iexn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɛn²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɛn²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɛn¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɛn²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ang³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: àng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aŋ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'enX, 'enH

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤe[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qeːnʔ/, /*qeːns/

Definitions

宴

1. (literary) comfortable; peaceful; happy
2. banquet; feast
3. to host a banquet; to entertain

Compounds

• 享宴
• 便宴 (biànyàn)
• 午宴 (wǔyàn)
• 喜宴 (xǐyàn)
• 國宴 / 国宴 (guóyàn)
• 大宴
• 大宴小酌
• 大宴賓客 / 大宴宾客
• 天下沒有不散的宴席 / 天下没有不散的宴席 (tiānxià méiyǒu bùsàn de yànxí)
• 天下無不散的宴席 / 天下无不散的宴席
• 婚宴 (hūnyàn)
• 宴坐
• 宴媟
• 宴安
• 宴安鴆毒 / 宴安鸩毒
• 宴客 (yànkè)
• 宴宴
• 家宴 (jiāyàn)
• 宴席 (yànxí)
• 宴息
• 宴會 / 宴会 (yànhuì)
• 宴樂 / 宴乐
• 宴歌
• 宴游
• 宴然
• 宴爾新婚 / 宴尔新婚
• 宴私
• 宴見 / 宴见
• 宴請 / 宴请 (yànqǐng)
• 宴集
• 宴飲 / 宴饮
• 宴餞 / 宴饯
• 宴饗 / 宴飨
• 弔宴 / 吊宴
• 恩榮宴 / 恩荣宴
• 慶功宴 / 庆功宴 (qìnggōngyàn)
• 排宴
• 探春之宴
• 探花宴
• 晚宴 (wǎnyàn)
• 曲宴
• 曲江宴
• 梁園宴雪
• 櫻桃宴 / 樱桃宴
• 款宴
• 歡宴 / 欢宴
• 瓊林宴 / 琼林宴
• 盛宴 (shèngyàn)
• 祖宴
• 筵宴 (yányàn)
• 結婚宴會 / 结婚宴会
• 聞喜宴 / 闻喜宴
• 設宴 / 设宴 (shèyàn)
• 謝師宴 / 谢师宴 (xièshīyàn)
• 賜宴 / 赐宴 (cìyàn)
• 赴宴 (fùyàn)
• 邀宴
• 酒宴 (jiǔyàn)
• 酺宴
• 野宴
• 錢龍宴 / 钱龙宴
• 閒宴 / 闲宴
• 飫宴 / 饫宴
• 飲宴 / 饮宴 (yǐnyàn)
• 饗宴 / 飨宴 (xiǎngyàn)
• 鴻門宴 / 鸿门宴 (hóngményàn)
• 鷹揚宴 / 鹰扬宴
• 鹿鳴宴 / 鹿鸣宴 (lùmíngyàn)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (宴):

• → Japanese: 宴(えん) (en)
• → Vietnamese: yến (宴)

References

• “宴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “宴”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 276.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 宴

宴

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)
• Kun: うたげ (utage, 宴)、たのしむ (tanoshimu, 宴しむ)

Compounds

Compounds

• 茗宴(めいえん) (meien): tea party

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
宴
うたげ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alteration of 打ち上げ (uchiage, “finishing of a performance, banquet at the finishing of a performance”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) うたげ [ùtágé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ta̠ɡe̞]

Noun

宴(うたげ) • (utage) 

1. party, banquet, feast

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
宴
えん Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 宴 (ʔen^H, “banquet, feast”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) えん [éꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

宴(えん) • (en) 

1. party, banquet, feast

Affix

宴(えん) • (en) 

1. party, banquet, feast

References

1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

宴 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宴: Hán Nôm readings: yến

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