雁

Glyph origin
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Etymology
Ultimately from (tentatively reconstructed); cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Related to ; both and  likely reflect an earlier liquid final (cf. Baxter and Sagart's reconstruction). Alternatively, it may derive from with nominalizing suffix *-n, but this Chinese-internal derivation is problematic in light of the cognates in 🇨🇬 ; but see  also, as noted in the etymology of.

Possible relationship with 🇨🇬 has been noted by some.

Definitions

 * 1) wild goose

Descendants
Others:

Kanji

 * 1) wild goose

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) wild goose

Derived terms

 * bowl part of a pipe; human neck or head

Etymology 2
Said to be from the cry of a wild goose.

Noun

 * 1) wild goose
 * 2) cry of a wild goose

Derived terms

 * goose's neck, something resembling a goose's neck; corona circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males

Hanja

 * 1) wild goose, whose skein flies in wedge or cuneiform, in contrast with 鵝 (거위 아, geowi-a), the domestic goose that would not fly at all.

Compounds

 * 家雁 (가안, ga-an) domestic goose, literally, house goose.