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坰

坰

Translingual

Han character

坰 (radical 32 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土月口 (GBR), four-corner 47120, composition ⿰土冋)

  1. wilds, wilderness
  2. the outermost suburbs

References

  • KangXi: page 226, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4985
  • Dae Jaweon: page 462, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 432, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5770

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 坰

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 坰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 青 (126)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古螢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kweŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /kueŋ/
Wang
Li		 /kiweŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiweŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiōng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 坰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kweng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷˤeŋ/
English region distant from capital

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 坰
Reading # 1/1
No. 6897
Phonetic
component		 冋
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 扃
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷeːŋ/

Definitions

坰

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Japanese

Kanji

坰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. wilds

Readings

Korean

Hanja

坰 • ‎(gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng)

  1. field
  2. borderland, vicinity

Vietnamese

Han character

坰 (quynh)

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References

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 坰
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (冋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
苘 *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
詗 *qʰʷeŋs, *qʰʷeːŋʔ
駉 *kʷeːŋ
坰 *kʷeːŋ
冋 *kʷeːŋ, *ɡʷeːŋʔ
絅 *kʷeːŋ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
扃 *kʷeːŋ
炯 *kʷeːŋʔ, *ɡʷeːŋʔ
迥 *ɡʷeːŋʔ
泂 *ɡʷeːŋʔ

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