延 U+5EF6, 延 ← 廵[U+5EF5] CJK Unified Ideographs 廷 →[U+5EF7] Stroke order Japaneseandtraditional Chinese(In mainland China,strokes 4 and 5mergeinto a single L-shaped stroke;also,stroke 7becomesa continuationof stroke 6.)

(Kangxi radical 54, 廴+5 in traditional Chinese and Japanese, 廴+4 in simplified Chinese, 8 strokes in Chinese in traditional Chinese and Japanese, 7 strokes in Korean, 6 strokes in simplified Chinese, Cangjie input 弓大竹卜一 (NKHYM) or 弓大竹卜女 (NKHYV), four-corner 12401, composition ⿺廴⿳丿⺊𠃊(GK) or ⿺廴⿱丿止(HTJ) or ⿺廴⿳一⺊𠃊(V) or ⿺廴⿱⿰丅一𠃊(V)) (Note: The Simplified Chinese version of the component 𠂛 is referred to as 延字心 (yánzìxīn) in Mandarin.)

  • 唌, 埏, 娫, 挻, 涎, 狿, 梴, 烻, 脠, 䀽, 硟, 䘰, 綖 (𫄧), 蜒, 誕 (诞), 鋋 (𮣴), 䩥, 駳, 鯅 (𱈁)
  • 郔, 㝚, 莚, 筵, 蜑, 䗺
  • 𛄡 (Katakana character derived from Man’yōgana)
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 352, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9569
  • Dae Jaweon: page 666, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 404, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5EF6

trad. simp. # 2nd round simp. 𨒂 alternative forms 𨒌

Originally 㢟, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (“walking”) + (“foot”) – “to travel far”. The stroke at the top started being added as a distinguishing mark at the end of the Warring States period, as a way to distinguish its usage from 㢟 as an adverb to mean “prolonged”, making it an Ideogram (指事).[1][2][3]

Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lan, *lans): phonetic 丿 (OC *pʰleːd, *leds) + semantic .

Within Chinese, cognate with 筵 (OC *lan, “bamboo mat”), 梴 (OC *l̥ʰan, “long (of wood)”) and 誕 (OC *l’aːnʔ, “wide; ludicrous”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Burmese လှန်း (hlan:, “to dry (things) in the sun”). Probably unrelated to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *jaːr (“spread; extend; sail”), whence Tibetan གཡོར་མོ (g.yor mo, “sail”), Mizo zâr (“to spread; to spread out”), Jingpho yàn (“spread; unrolled”).

Pan (1987) suggests Vietnamese lan (“to spread”) is borrowed from Old Chinese 延 (OC *lan, *lans).

  1. to prolong
  2. to stretch; to extend
  3. to engage; to send for
  4. to delay; to postpone; to defer
  5. a surname

ShinjitaiKyūjitai[1][2][3][4] 延󠄂延+󠄂?(Adobe-Japan1) 延󠄅延+󠄅?(Moji_Joho) The displayed kanji may be different from the image due to your environment.See here for details.

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  • Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)←えん (en, historical)←𛀁ん (yen, ancient)
  • Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)←えん (en, historical)←𛀁ん (yen, ancient)
  • Kun: のびる (nobiru, 延びる, Jōyō)、のべる (noberu, 延べる, Jōyō)、のばす (nobasu, 延ばす, Jōyō)
  • Nanori: すけ (suke)、すすむ (susumu)、ただし (tadashi)、とお (tō)、なが (naga)、のぶ (nobu)、のぶる (noburu)

Kanji in this term 延 えんGrade: 6 on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 延 (MC yen).

  • IPA(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

延(えん) • (en)

  1. extend, lengthen
  2. prolong
  3. postpone

(eumhun 늘일 연 (neuril yeon))

  1. hanja form? of (“to stretch; to extend; to lengthen”)
  • 연명 (延命, yeonmyeong)

延: Hán Nôm readings: diên

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