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肯
肯
See also: 肻
Translingual
Han character
肯 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜一月 (YMB), four-corner 21227, composition ⿱止月)
References
- KangXi: page 976, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29311
- Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 21
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2048, character 4
- Unihan data for U+80AF
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
肯 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 肯
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|---|
| Bronze inscriptions |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (肯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 肯 | *kʰɯːŋʔ |
| 肎 | *kʰɯːŋʔ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄣˇ
- Wade-Giles: k'ên3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keen
- IPA (key): /kʰən²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hang2, hoi2
- Yale: háng, hói
- Cantonese Pinyin: hang2, hoi2
- IPA (key): /hɐŋ³⁵/, /hɔːi̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khéng
- Tâi-lô: khíng
- Phofsit Daibuun: qeang
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiɪŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɪŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɪŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɪŋ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 肯 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /kʰən²¹⁴/ |
| Harbin | /kʰən²¹³/ | |
| Tianjin | /kʰən¹³/ | |
| Jinan | /kʰẽ⁵⁵/ | |
| Qingdao | /kʰə̃⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /kʰən⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /kʰẽ⁵³/ | |
| Xining | /kʰə̃⁵³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /kʰəŋ⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /kʰə̃n⁴⁴²/ | |
| Ürümqi | /kʰɤŋ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /kʰən⁴²/ | |
| Chengdu | /kʰən⁵³/ | |
| Guiyang | /kʰen⁴²/ | |
| Kunming | /kʰə̃⁵³/ | |
| Nanjing | /kʰən²¹²/ | |
| Hefei | /kʰən²⁴/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /kʰəŋ⁵³/ |
| Pingyao | /kʰəŋ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot | /kʰə̃ŋ⁵³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /kʰəŋ³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /kʰən⁵¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /kʰen⁵³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /kʰaŋ³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /kʰʌ̃³⁵/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕʰin³¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /kʰən⁴¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /kʰən⁴²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /kʰiɛn²¹³/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /kʰen³¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /hen³¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /hɐŋ³⁵/ |
| Nanning | /hɐŋ³⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /hɐŋ³⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /kʰiŋ⁵³/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /kʰiŋ³²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /kʰaiŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kʰeŋ⁵³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /xin²¹³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 登 (129) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 苦等切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kʰəŋX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kʰəŋX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kʰəŋX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kʰəŋX/ |
| Li Rong |
/kʰəŋX/ |
| Wang Li |
/kʰəŋX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kʰəŋX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
kěng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
kěn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ khongX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰˤəŋʔ/ |
| English | to be willing |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 肯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7485 |
| Phonetic component |
肯 |
| Rime group |
蒸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
肯 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰɯːŋʔ/ |
| Notes | 說文作肎 |
Definitions
肯
Compounds
References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #4437”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
肯
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Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
肯 • (geung) (hangeul 긍, revised geung, McCune-Reischauer kŭng, Yale kung)
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Vietnamese
Han character
肯 (khẳng, khứng, khừng)
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