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Translingual

Han character

(radical 108 +4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸月廿 (NSBT), four-corner 17107, composition)

  1. fill
  2. full, overflowing
  3. surplus
  4. (of the Moon) to wax

References

  • KangXi: page 793, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22961
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1208, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2558, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+76C8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*leŋ
*leŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (exceed/augment) +  (vessel) – to add too much (liquid) to a vessel.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /iŋ³⁵/
Harbin /iŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /iŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /iŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /iŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /iŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /iŋ²⁴/
Xining /iə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /iŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ĩn³¹/
Ürümqi /iŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /in²¹³/
Chengdu /in³¹/
Guiyang /in²¹/
Kunming /ĩ¹/
Nanjing /in²⁴/
Hefei /in⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /iŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦiŋ²³/
Suzhou /in⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɦin²¹³/
Wenzhou /jaŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /iʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /in⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /in¹³/
Xiangtan /in¹²/
Gan Nanchang /in⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /in¹¹/
Taoyuan /in¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jeŋ²¹/
Nanning /jeŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /jiŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iŋ³⁵/
/iã³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iŋ²¹/
/ieiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ioŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zeŋ³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/jiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/iæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jiajŋ/
Li
Rong
/iɛŋ/
Wang
Li
/jĭɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yíng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yíng
Middle
Chinese
‹ yeng ›
Old
Chinese
/*leŋ/ (< *liŋ?)
English fill

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. 15352
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*leŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. fill
  2. surplus

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(yeong) (hangeul , revised yeong, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(doanh, dềnh, giềng, diềng, riêng)

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