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鱷 (Kangxi radical 195,魚+16, 27 strokes,cangjie input弓火一土口 (NFMGR),four-corner26327,composition⿰魚噩)
| trad. | 鱷/鰐 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 鳄 | |
| nonstandard simp. | 𱈚 | |
| alternative forms | 𧊜 𩻙 | |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*ŋaːɡ): semantic 魚(“fish”) + phonetic 噩(OC*ŋaːɡ).
Within Chinese,Carr (1990) relates it to:
Outside of Chinese,Carr (1990) also relates it to:
Vovin (2021) notes that鱷 (OC *ŋâk ~ *ŋɑk) "aquatic reptile,saltwater crocodile" was attested late, for the first time inShuowen as𧊜; and that "it would be very weird if the word for a ‘saltwater crocodile’ from the middle of Huang-he (黃河) river basin that lies quite far away from both tropics and the sea would be borrowed by Tai languages in Southern China". Therefore, Vovin contends that, instead,鱷 (OC *ŋâk ~ *ŋɑk) had been borrowed intoLater Han Chinese fromTai.
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 鱷 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 鐸 (103) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 五各切 |
| Baxter | ngak |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋɑk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋɑk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋɑk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋak̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋɑk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋɑk̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ŋɑk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | è |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngok6 |
鱷
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| 鰐 | |
| 鱷 |
(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji,shinjitai form鰐)
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