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景

景

Translingual

Han character

景 (radical 72 日+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日卜口火 (AYRF), four-corner 60906, composition ⿱日京)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 496, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13983
  • Dae Jaweon: page 862, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1520, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+666F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 景

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 景
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (京) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涼 *ɡ·raŋ, *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raŋs
凉 *ɡ·raŋ
椋 *ɡ·raŋ
綡 *ɡ·raŋ
輬 *ɡ·raŋ
諒 *ɡ·raŋs
掠 *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raɡ
弶 *ɡaŋs
京 *kraŋ
麖 *kraŋ
鶁 *kraŋ
景 *kraŋʔ
鯨 *ɡraŋ
黥 *ɡraŋ
勍 *ɡraŋ
剠 *ɡraŋ
倞 *ɡraŋs
影 *qraŋʔ
璟 *qraŋʔ, *kʷraŋʔ
憬 *kʷraŋʔ
暻 *kʷraŋʔ
澋 *ɡʷraːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kraŋʔ) : semantic 日 ‎(“sun”) + phonetic 京 ‎(OC *kraŋ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 景
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居影切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiæŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚiaŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiaŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kiajŋX/
Li
Rong		 /kiɐŋX/
Wang
Li		 /kĭɐŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ɐŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 景 景
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǐng jǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjængX › ‹ kjængX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.qraŋʔ/ /*[C.q]raŋʔ/
English bright; image a kind of coat

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 景
Reading # 1/1
No. 6831
Phonetic
component		 京
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 警
Old
Chinese		 /*kraŋʔ/

Definitions

景

  1. scenery; view
  2. conditions; situation
  3. scene; setting; scenario
  4. to admire; to appreciate
  5. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

景

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

景 ‎(hiragana けい, romaji kei)

  1. vista, view, scene
  2. counter for scenes (in a play)

景 ‎(hiragana かげ, romaji kage)

  1. Alternative form of 影

Korean

Hanja

景 • ‎(gyeong, yeong) (hangeul 경, 영, revised gyeong, yeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, yŏng, Yale kyeng, yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

景 (cảnh, ảnh, khảnh, kiểng, ngoảnh, kẻng, ngảnh)

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