黿

黿 (Kangxi radical 205, 黽+4, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一一山山 (MMUU), four-corner 1071₆, composition ⿱元黽)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1523, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48261
• Dae Jaweon: page 2059, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4768, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9EFF

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋoːn, *ŋon) : phonetic 元 (OC *ŋon) + semantic 黽 (“a kind of frog”).

Possibly the same word as 元 (OC *ŋon) (Schuessler, 2007); see there for its etymology. It may be related to 鰲 (OC *ŋaːw, “mythological turtle”) (Schuessler, 2007); see there for more.

黿

1. Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii)

   Synonyms: 黿魚／鼋鱼 (yuányú), 癩頭黿／癞头鼋 (làitóuyuán)

2. Alternative form of 蚖

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. green sea turtle

• On (unclassified): げん (gen)、がん (gan)
• Kun: あおうみがめ (aoumigame)^{←あをうみがめ (awoumigame, historical)}

黿 • (won) (hangeul 원, revised won, McCune–Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

1. big turtle

黿: Hán Việt readings: nguyên (愚(ngu)袁(viên)切(thiết))^[1][2]

1. chữ Hán form of nguyên (“big sea turtle”).