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薌

薌

See also: 芗

Translingual

Han character

薌 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿女竹中 (TVHL), four-corner 44227)

  1. fragrant smell of grain
  2. aromatic

References

  • KangXi: page 1060, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32100
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1524, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3287, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+858C

Chinese

trad. 薌
simp. 芗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 薌
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (鄉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
曏 *qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
鄉 *qʰaŋ
薌 *qʰaŋ
膷 *qʰaŋ
響 *qʰaŋʔ
饗 *qʰaŋʔ
蠁 *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
嚮 *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
卿 *kʰraŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 薌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /xiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /xĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 薌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋ/
English fragrance

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 薌
Reading # 1/1
No. 13597
Phonetic
component		 鄉
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 香
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋ/

Definitions

薌

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Compounds

  • 薌澤／芗泽
  • 薌萁／芗萁

References

Japanese

Kanji

薌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

薌 • ‎(hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang, Yale hyang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薌 (hương)

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