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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 59 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日火竹竹竹 (AFHHH), four-corner 62922, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 364, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10019
  • Dae Jaweon: page 684, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 857, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5F71

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡ·raŋ, *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raŋs
*ɡ·raŋ
*ɡ·raŋ
*ɡ·raŋ
*ɡ·raŋ
*ɡ·raŋs
*ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raɡ
*ɡaŋs
*kraŋ
*kraŋ
*kraŋ
*kraŋʔ
*ɡraŋ
*ɡraŋ
*ɡraŋ
*ɡraŋ
*ɡraŋs
*qraŋʔ
*qraŋʔ, *kʷraŋʔ
*kʷraŋʔ
*kʷraŋʔ
*ɡʷraːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qraŋʔ) : phonetic  (OC *kraŋʔ) + semantic .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (111)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔˠiæŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔᵚiaŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiaŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔiajŋX/
Li
Rong
/ʔiɐŋX/
Wang
Li
/ĭɐŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ɐŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yǐng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjængX ›
Old
Chinese
/*qraŋʔ/
English shadow (n.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6837
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qraŋʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. shadow
  2. image
  3. trace (of human presence); presence (of people or things); occurrence (of events)
  4. picture; photograph
  5. (Cantonese) to take (a picture)

Synonyms

  • (to take a picture): (Mandarin) (pāi)

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Unbound apophonic form of (kaga).

Noun

(hiragana かが, romaji kaga)

  1. light
  2. a shape or form reflected in light
  3. a shadow
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
かげ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

(kaga) + (i) > kage. Bound apophonic form of (kaga).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana かげ, romaji kage)

  1. light
  2. a shape or form reflected in light
  3. shadow

See also

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(yeong) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ảnh)

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