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癢

癢

See also: 痒

Translingual

Han character

癢 (radical 104 疒+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 大廿人女 (KTOV), four-corner 00132)

  1. itch

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 782, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22602
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1191, character 33
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2702, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7662

Chinese

trad. 癢
simp. 痒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (養) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鯗 *slaŋʔ
養 *laŋʔ, *laŋs
癢 *laŋʔ
瀁 *laŋʔ, *laŋs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 癢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 餘兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jɨaŋX/
Li
Rong		 /iaŋX/
Wang
Li		 /jĭaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯aŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 癢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǎng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yangX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.ɢaŋʔ/
English itch

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 癢
Reading # 1/1
No. 14614
Phonetic
component		 養
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 養
Old
Chinese		 /*laŋʔ/
Notes 見禮記同癢

Definitions

癢

  1. itchy
    我這兒很癢。 / 我这儿很痒。  ―  Wǒ zhèr hěn yǎng.  ―  I'm itchy here.
  2. itch
  3. to itch

Synonyms

  • (Cantonese) 痕 (hén)

Japanese

Kanji

癢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

癢 • ‎(yang) (hangeul 양, revised yang, McCune-Reischauer yang, Yale yang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

癢 (dưỡng, ngứa)

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