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容

容

Translingual

Han character

容 (radical 40 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金人口 (JCOR), four-corner 30608, composition ⿱宀谷)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 287, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7172
  • Dae Jaweon: page 567, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 933, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5BB9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 容

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 容
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (谷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
螸 *lo
裕 *loɡs
容 *loŋ
溶 *loŋ, *loŋʔ
鎔 *loŋ
蓉 *loŋ
傛 *loŋ, *loŋʔ
褣 *loŋ
搈 *loŋ
瑢 *loŋ
嵱 *loŋ
熔 *loŋ
榕 *loŋ
塎 *loŋʔ
谷 *ɦkroːɡ, *kloːɡ, *ɡ·loːɡ
唂 *kloːɡ
焀 *ɡloːɡ
俗 *ljoɡ
欲 *loɡ
浴 *loɡ
鵒 *loɡ
峪 *ɦkloːɡ
鋊 *loɡ
輍 *loɡ
慾 *loɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *loŋ) : semantic 宀 + phonetic 公 ‎(OC *kloːŋ) – to hold; to contain.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 容
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 餘封切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ioŋ/
Wang
Li		 /jĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yóng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 容 容
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 róng róng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yowng › ‹ yowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ](r)oŋ/ /*[ɢ](r)oŋ/
English contain appearance

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 容
Reading # 1/1
No. 4284
Phonetic
component		 谷
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 容
Old
Chinese		 /*loŋ/
Notes 說文古文從公，小徐作谷聲

Definitions

容

  1. to hold; to contain
  2. to tolerate; to stand
  3. to allow; to permit
    請容我說兩句 / 请容我说两句  ―  qǐng róng wǒ shuō liǎng jù  ―  Please allow me to say something
  4. perhaps; maybe
  5. facial appearance; looks
  6. bearing; posture
  7. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

容

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. contain
  2. shape, appearance

Readings

Usage notes

Formerly used as man'yōgana for the back-vowel variant 甲類 ‎(kōrui) of よ (yo).

Compounds

Noun

容 ‎(hiragana かたち, romaji katachi)

  1. Alternative form of 形

Korean

Hanja

容 • ‎(yong) (hangeul 용, revised yong, McCune-Reischauer yong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

容 (dung, dong, doòng, gióng, giông, ròng, rông, rung)

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