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羊

羊

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

羊 (radical 123 羊+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 廿手 (TQ), four-corner 80501)

  1. Kangxi radical #123, ⽺ ‎(“sheep”).

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 950, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28425
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3125, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7F8A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 羊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羊
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (羊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
样 *ʔslaːŋ, *laŋ
佯 *zlaŋ, *laŋ
詳 *ljaŋ, *laŋ
洋 *ljaŋ, *laŋ
翔 *ljaŋ
庠 *ljaŋ
祥 *ljaŋ
痒 *ljaŋ, *laŋʔ
姜 *klaŋ
羌 *kʰlaŋ
蜣 *kʰlaŋ
猐 *kʰlaŋ
唴 *kʰlaŋs
羊 *laŋ
徉 *laŋ
烊 *laŋ
蛘 *laŋ, *laŋʔ
眻 *laŋ, *laŋs
鴹 *laŋ
恙 *laŋs
羕 *laŋs
樣 *laŋs
漾 *laŋs

Pictogram (象形) – picture of a sheep head.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jaŋ.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 羊
Mandarin Beijing /iɑŋ³⁵/
Harbin /iaŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /iɑŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /iaŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /iaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /iaŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /iaŋ²⁴/
Xining /iɔ̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /iɑŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /iɑ̃⁵³/
Ürümqi /iɑŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /iaŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /iaŋ³¹/
Guiyang /iaŋ²¹/
Kunming /iã̠¹/
Nanjing /iaŋ²⁴/
Hefei /iɑ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /iɑŋ¹³/
/yə¹³/ ～子
Hohhot /iɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦiã²³/
Suzhou /ɦiã¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦiɑŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /ji³¹/
Hui Shexian /ia⁴⁴/
Tunxi /iau⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ian¹³/
Xiangtan /ian¹²/
Gan Nanchang /iɔŋ⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ioŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʒoŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jœŋ²¹/
Nanning /jœŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /jœŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iɔŋ³⁵/
/iũ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /yoŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iɔŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /iõ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /iaŋ³¹/
/io³¹/
Rime
Character 羊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 與章切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /iaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /jĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yáng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 羊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yáng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢaŋ/
English sheep

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 羊
Reading # 1/1
No. 14535
Phonetic
component		 羊
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 陽
Old
Chinese		 /*laŋ/

Definitions

羊

  1. caprid, eg. sheep, goat, antelope
  2. A surname​.

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (羊):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
羊
ひつじ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Kanji

羊

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

Possibly cognate with 未 ‎(hitsuji, “the Goat, eighth sign of the Chinese zodiac”)

Pronunciation

Noun

羊 ‎(hiragana ひつじ, katakana ヒツジ, romaji hitsuji)

  1. (zoology) sheep

References

  1. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

羊 • ‎(yang)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 양()
  • Name (hangeul): 양()
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Vietnamese

Han character

羊 (dương)

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