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刑

刑

刑 U+5211, 刑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5211
← 刐
[U+5210] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 划 →
[U+5212]
See also: 形

Translingual

Han character

刑 (radical 18 刀+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一廿中弓 (MTLN), four-corner 12400, composition ⿰开刂)

  1. punishment, penalty
  2. law

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 137, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1886
  • Dae Jaweon: page 308, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 324, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5211

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 刑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (井) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
硎 *kʰreːŋ, *ɡeːŋ
耕 *kreːŋ
荊 *keŋ
井 *skeŋʔ
丼 *kloːmʔ, *skeŋʔ
妌 *sɡeŋʔ
穽 *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
阱 *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
汫 *sɡeːŋʔ
刑 *ɡeːŋ
形 *ɡeːŋ
邢 *ɡeːŋ
鉶 *ɡeːŋ
型 *ɡeːŋ
侀 *ɡeːŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 刑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 戸經切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦeŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣeŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ɣieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xíng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 刑 刑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xíng xíng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ heng › ‹ heng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ˤeŋ/ /*[ɢ]ˤeŋ/
English punish(ment) model, form

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 刑
Reading # 1/1
No. 6861
Phonetic
component		 井
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 㓝
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡeːŋ/

Definitions

刑

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

刑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. punishment
  2. regulation
  3. punish

Readings

Compounds

References

Noun

刑 ‎(hiragana けい, romaji kei)

  1. punishment

Suffix

刑 ‎(hiragana けい, romaji -kei)

  1. punishment; sentence; penalty

Korean

Hanja

刑 • ‎(hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune-Reischauer hyŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

刑 (hình)

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