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縫

縫

See also: 缝

Translingual

Han character

縫 (radical 120 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火卜竹十 (VFYHJ), four-corner 27934, composition ⿰糹逢)

References

  • KangXi: page 935, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27805
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3437, character 22
  • Unihan data for U+7E2B

Chinese

trad. 縫
simp. 缝
alt. forms 綘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
邦 *proːŋ
梆 *proːŋ
垹 *proːŋ
肨 *pʰroːŋs, *pʰroːŋs
蚌 *broːŋʔ, *breːŋʔ
玤 *broːŋʔ
棒 *broːŋʔ
蜯 *broːŋʔ
琫 *poːŋʔ
菶 *poːŋʔ, *boːŋʔ
俸 *poːŋʔ, *boŋs
髼 *boːŋ
蜂 *boːŋ, *pʰoŋ
韸 *boːŋ
蓬 *boːŋ
篷 *boːŋ
唪 *boːŋʔ, *boŋʔ
埲 *boːŋʔ
丰 *pʰoŋ
妦 *pʰoŋ
仹 *pʰoŋ
峯 *pʰoŋ
峰 *pʰoŋ
鋒 *pʰoŋ
烽 *pʰoŋ
蠭 *pʰoŋ
桻 *pʰoŋ
莑 *pʰoŋ
夆 *pʰoŋ, *boŋ, *ɡaːds
捧 *pʰoŋʔ
逢 *boŋ
縫 *boŋ, *boŋs
漨 *boŋ
捀 *boŋ, *boŋs
奉 *boŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *boŋ, *boŋs) : semantic 糹 + phonetic 逢 ‎(OC *boŋ).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 縫
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 符容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /bioŋ/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 féng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 縫
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 féng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*(mə-)[b](r)oŋ/ (~ *C.[b](r)oŋ)
English sew

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 縫
Reading # 1/2
No. 3235
Phonetic
component		 丰
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 逢
Old
Chinese		 /*boŋ/

Definitions

縫

  1. to sew up; to stitch
  2. to patch; to mend
  3. to sew; to make dress

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 縫
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 扶用切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨoŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bioŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bioŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buawŋH/
Li
Rong		 /bioŋH/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwoŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯woŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fèng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 縫
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fèng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjowngH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.[b](r)oŋ-s/
English seam

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 縫
Reading # 2/2
No. 3241
Phonetic
component		 丰
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 俸
Old
Chinese		 /*boŋs/

Definitions

縫

  1. seam; crack; narrow slit

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

縫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 天衣無縫 (てんいむほう, ten'imuhō)

Korean

Hanja

縫 • ‎(bong) (hangeul 봉, revised bong, McCune-Reischauer pong, Yale pong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縫 (phùng)

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