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嚮

嚮

嚮 U+56AE, 嚮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56AE
← 嚭
[U+56AD] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嚯 →
[U+56AF]
See also: 向

Translingual

Han character

嚮 (radical 30 口+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 女中竹月口 (VLHBR), four-corner 27227, composition ⿱鄉向)

  1. guide, direct
  2. incline to, favor

References

  • KangXi: page 213, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4565
  • Dae Jaweon: page 436, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 698, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+56AE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 嚮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鄉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
曏 *qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
鄉 *qʰaŋ
薌 *qʰaŋ
膷 *qʰaŋ
響 *qʰaŋʔ
饗 *qʰaŋʔ
蠁 *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
嚮 *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
卿 *kʰraŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嚮 嚮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 陽 (105) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 許兩切 許亮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨɐŋX/ /hɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiɐŋX/ /hiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɑŋX/ /xiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨaŋX/ /hɨaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /xiaŋX/ /xiaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /xĭaŋX/ /xĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯aŋX/ /xi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiǎng xiàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嚮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋ-s/
English to face, approach

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 嚮 嚮
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13602 13606
Phonetic
component		 鄉 鄉
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 響 向
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋʔ/ /*qʰaŋs/
Notes 鄉轉註分化字

Definitions

嚮

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Japanese

Kanji

嚮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

嚮 • ‎(hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嚮 (hướng, hưởng)

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