Translingual
Han character
㝹 (Kangxi radical 42, 小+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火竹弓日山 (FHNAU), composition ⿱少兔)
- (corrupted form) hare, small rabbit
- a surname
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Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 㝹 – see 䨲 (“baby hare”). (This character is a variant form of 䨲). |
Vietnamese
Han character
㝹: Hán Việt readings: nao[1][2], niểu[1], nâu[3]
㝹: Nôm readings: nao[1][2][3][4][5], nau[1][2][3][4], niu[1][3][5], nào[3], nu[4]
- chữ Nôm form of nao
- anxious; uneasy
- alternative form of nào (“which”)
- chữ Nôm form of nau (“(obsolete) pain”)
- Late 15th century, Tao Đàn nhị thập bát tú (Twenty-Eight Mansions of Tao Đàn), Hồng Đức Quốc Âm thi tập (Collection of Poem in the Nation's Language), folio 69b
唯唯隊㝹郡𦛌𦚐- Dói dói đòi nau quặn ruột rà.
- Sharp and keen are the guts' many twistings and writhings.
18th century, Đặng Trần Côn (鄧陳琨) (circa 1705–1745) (original Chinese), translated by Đoàn Thị Điểm (段氏點) (1705–1746/1748) (traditionally claimed), might actually be translated by Phan Huy Ích (潘輝益) (1751–1822), Chinh phụ ngâm khúc (征婦吟曲) [The Song of a Soldier's Wife], lines 333-334:切𠬠身房空𨻫𪧚
𠱾節𫅜𢗖𢖵隊㝹- Thiết một thân phòng không luống giữ,
Thời tiết lành nhầm nhỡ đòi nau; [...] - Pitiful is the lonely wife inside an empty room
Who lets her finest seasons [endure] much haphazard agony.
- chữ Nôm form of niu (“used in nâng niu (“to take a loving care of; to cherish; to coddle”)”)
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