龑

龑 (Kangxi radical 212, 龍+4, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜心一大 (YPMK), four-corner 0843₂, composition ⿱龍天)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1537, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48827
• Dae Jaweon: page 2077, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4804, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9F91

Liu Yan's original name was 劉巖／刘岩 (liú yán). He changed 巖／岩 (yán) to 龑, a character he invented. The character refers to a saying in the I Ching, 飛龍在天 ("the flying dragon in the sky").

龑

1. The adopted personal name of Liu Yan (889–942).

• Hanyu Da Zidian (in Mandarin), Taiwan: Jianhong Publishers, 2007, →ISBN
• “龑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. high and bright

• Go-on: げん (gen)
• Kan-on: えん (en)

This kanji usage is extremely rare in Japanese. An example usage of this kanji is the use of the Chinese emperor name Liu Yan which can be read in Japanese as 劉龑(りゅうげん) (Ryū Gen).

龑: Hán Nôm readings: nghiễm

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