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抗

抗

Translingual

Han character

抗 (radical 64 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手卜竹弓 (QYHN), four-corner 50017, composition ⿰扌亢)

  1. resist, oppose, defy, reject

References

  • KangXi: page 422, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11889
  • Dae Jaweon: page 769, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1843, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6297

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 抗

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亢) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笐 *kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs
亢 *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs
牨 *kaːŋ
苀 *kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
魧 *kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
迒 *kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
邟 *kʰaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
忼 *kʰaːŋʔ, *qʰaːŋ
骯 *kʰaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *qaːŋ
抗 *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
炕 *kʰaːŋs, *qʰaːŋ
伉 *kʰaːŋs
閌 *kʰaːŋs
犺 *kʰaːŋs
蚢 *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
砊 *kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
阬 *kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
頏 *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
航 *ɡaːŋ
杭 *ɡaːŋ
沆 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
肮 *ɡaːŋ
吭 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋs
秔 *kraːŋ
坑 *kʰraːŋ
劥 *kʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 亢 ‎(OC *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 抗
Mandarin Beijing /kʰɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /kʰaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /kʰɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /kʰaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /kʰaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kʰaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /kʰɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /kʰɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /kʰɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /kʰɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /kʰaŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /kʰaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /kʰaŋ²¹³/
Kunming /kʰã̠¹/
Nanjing /kʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /kʰɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰɒ̃¹¹/ ～不住
/kʰɒ̃⁴⁵/ 抵～
Pingyao /kʰɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /kʰɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kʰɑ̃³⁵/
Suzhou /kʰɑ̃⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /kʰɑŋ⁵³/
Wenzhou /kʰuɔ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kʰa³²⁴/
Tunxi /kʰau⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /kʰan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kʰɔn⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kʰɔŋ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kʰoŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /kʰoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰɔŋ³³/
Nanning /kʰɔŋ³³/
Hong Kong /kʰɔŋ³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰɔŋ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰɔuŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kaŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰaŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xaŋ³⁵/
Rime
Character 抗 抗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 唐 (101) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 胡郎切 苦浪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɑŋ/ /kʰɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦɑŋ/ /kʰɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɑŋ/ /kʰɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaŋ/ /kʰaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɑŋ/ /kʰɑŋH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣɑŋ/ /kʰɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣɑŋ/ /kʰɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 háng kàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 抗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰˤaŋ-s/
English set up; oppose; protect

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 抗 抗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7365 7388
Phonetic
component		 亢 亢
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 抗 航
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰaːŋs/ /*ɡaːŋ/

Verb

抗

  1. to resist, to oppose
    抗日戰爭 / 抗日战争  ―  kàngrì zhànzhēng  ―  "War of Resistance Against Japan" (the Second Sino-Japanese War)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

抗

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. fight against
  2. meet head on
  3. contravene
  4. to disagree with

Readings

Korean

Hanja

抗 • ‎(hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune-Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

抗 (kháng)

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