宴

Stroke order

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

• 𠻈, 𡏉, 𦞷, 𥉛, 𲎠, 𡪻, 𮭍, 𦶳

• 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

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.

宴

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

• “宴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

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• 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)

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

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

宴(うたげ) • (utage) 

1. party, banquet, feast

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

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

宴(えん) • (en) 

1. party, banquet, feast

宴(えん) • (en) 

1. party, banquet, feast

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

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宴: Hán Nôm readings: yến

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