鼉

See also: 鼍
鼉 U+9F09, 鼉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F09
← 鼈
[U+9F08] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鼊 →
[U+9F0A]

Translingual

Han character

鼉 (Kangxi radical 205, 黽+12, 25 strokes, cangjie input 口口田一山 (RRWMU), four-corner 66717, composition ⿳㽞一黽)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1525, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48306
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2060, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4771, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+9F09

Chinese
trad. 鼉
simp. 鼍
alternative forms 𪛄
鱓
𪓽
𪓸

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 鼉
Shang Spring and Autumn Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嚲 *taːlʔ
癉 *taːlʔ, *taːls, *taːn, *daːn
奲 *taːlʔ, *tʰjaːlʔ
驒 *daːl, *daːn, *teːn
鼉 *daːl
磾 *teːl
鷤 *deːl, *deːls, *daːn
觶 *tjal, *tjals
單 *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans
鄲 *taːn
殫 *taːn
簞 *taːn
匰 *taːn
襌 *taːn
彈 *daːn, *daːns
貚 *daːn, *deːn
撣 *daːn, *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan, *taːnʔ
潬 *daːnʔ
僤 *daːnʔ, *daːns, *djan
憚 *daːns
樿 *tjanʔ
燀 *tjanʔ, *tʰjan, *tʰjanʔ
戰 *tjans
闡 *tʰjanʔ
繟 *tʰjanʔ
幝 *tʰjanʔ
嘽 *tʰaːn, *tʰjanʔ
灛 *tʰjanʔ
蟬 *djan
禪 *djan, *djans
嬋 *djan
墠 *djanʔ
鱓 *djanʔ
蕇 *teːnʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːl) : phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans) + semantic 黽 (“toad”)

Etymology

Löffler (1966) tentatively relates this to Mru tam (“alligator”) yet the finals do not agree.

Also reminiscent of Santali [script needed] (tajan, “broad-headed alligator”) (Schuessler, 2007)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鼉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒河切
Baxter da
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /da/
Li
Rong		 /dɑ/
Wang
Li		 /dɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tuó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 to4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鼉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tuó
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ da ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ˁar/
English alligator

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 鼉
Reading # 1/1
No. 1988
Phonetic
component		 單
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 駝
Old
Chinese		 /*daːl/

Definitions

鼉

  1. Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji
鼉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Alligator
  2. Formerly could also mean Shark

Readings

Korean

Hanja

鼉 • (ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune–Reischauer t'a, Yale tha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鼉: Hán Nôm readings: đà

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