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Translingual

Han character

(radical 181 +7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一一一月金 (MMMBC), four-corner 11186, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1405, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43515
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1922, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4373, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+9838

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡeŋ, *ɡeŋ
*keŋʔ, *ɡeŋ
*kɯns, *keŋs
*kʰeŋ, *kʰeːŋs
*kʰeŋ, *kʰeŋs
*ɡeŋʔ, *keːŋ
*keːŋ, *keːŋs
*keːŋ
*keːŋ
*keːŋʔ
*keːŋʔ
*keːŋs
*keːŋs
*keːŋs
*qʰeːŋ
*ɡeːŋ
*ɡeːŋ, *ɡeːŋʔ
*ɡeːŋʔ, *ɡeːŋs
*ɡeːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *keŋʔ, *ɡeŋ) : phonetic  (OC *keːŋ) + semantic  (body part).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (30) (28) (28)
Final () (121) (125) (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () III IV III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡiᴇŋ/ /keŋ/ /kiᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiɛŋ/ /keŋ/ /kiɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiæŋ/ /kɛŋ/ /kiæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/giajŋ/ /kɛjŋ/ /kiajŋX/
Li
Rong
/ɡiɛŋ/ /keŋ/ /kiɛŋX/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭɛŋ/ /kieŋ/ /kĭɛŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯ɛŋ/ /kieŋ/ /ki̯ɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qíng jīng jǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jǐng jǐng
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjieng › ‹ kjiengX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-[k]eŋ/ (no palatalization before *-eŋ?) /*[k]eŋʔ/ (no palatalization before *-eŋ?)
English neck neck

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 6789 6795
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*keŋʔ/ /*ɡeŋ/

Definitions

  1. neck   (Classifier: c)
    / [Cantonese]   Ngo5 tiu4geng2 hou2 han4. [Jyutping]   My neck is itchy.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 脖子 (“neck”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 頸項
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 頸部
Mandarin Beijing 脖子
Taiwan 脖子
Harbin 脖子
Jinan 脖子
Muping 脖子
Luoyang 脖子
Wanrong 脖項、脖子
Xi'an 脖項、脖子
Xining 脖板、脖脖
Xuzhou 脖頸子、脖了頸子
Yinchuan 脖子
Ürümqi 脖子
Wuhan 頸子、頸框
Chengdu 頸項脖子、頸子
Guiyang 脖頸
Liuzhou 頸脖
Yangzhou 頸項、頸亢
Nanjing 頸子、脖子
Hefei 腦頸把子
Cantonese Guangzhou
Hong Kong
Dongguan
Taishan
Yangjiang 、頸柄
Gan Nanchang
Lichuan
Pingxiang 頸牯
Hakka Meixian 頸根
Xingning
Huidong (Huizhou)
Qujiang
Xiaosanjiang
Changting
Pingyu 頸根
Wuping 頸根
Liancheng 頸骨
Ninghua
Yudu
Ruijin
Shicheng
Shangyou 頸根
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 頸根
Liudui (S. Sixian) 頸根
Hsinchu (Hailu) 頸根
Dongshi (Dabu) 頸根
Zhuolan (Raoping) 頸根
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Hui Jixi 扣頸、脰頸
Jin Taiyuan 脖子
Xinzhou 脖子
Min Bei Jian'ou 、仲仲
Min Dong Fuzhou 脰骨
Min Nan Quanzhou 頷胿
Xiamen 頷頸、脰項
Zhangzhou 頷頸頷仔
Taipei 頷頸仔
Kaohsiung 頷頸
Tainan 頷胿、頷頸仔
Taichung 頷仔頸
Yilan 頷頸
Lukang 頷頸
Sanxia 頷頸
Kinmen 頷頸
Magong 頷頸
Hsinchu 頷頸
Malaysia 頷仔頸
Chaozhou
Haikou 脰蒂、
Leizhou
Pinghua Nanning
Wu Shanghai 頭頸、頭頸骨
Suzhou 頭頸
Hangzhou 脰頸、脖子
Wenzhou 頭頸
Chongming 頸骨
Danyang 頸梗
Ningbo 頭頸骨、頭頸
Xiang Changsha 頸根、頸箍
Shuangfeng 頸殼
Loudi 頸頜、頸筋

Compounds

  • 交頸交颈
  • 伸頭縮頸伸头缩颈
  • 係頸系颈
  • 係頸闕庭系颈阙庭
  • 刎頸刎颈
  • 刎頸之交刎颈之交
  • 刎頸交刎颈交
  • 刎頸至交刎颈至交
  • 子宮頸子宫颈 (zǐgōngjǐng)
  • 子宮頸炎子宫颈炎
  • 子宮頸癌子宫颈癌 (zǐgōngjǐng'ái)
  • 延頸延颈
  • 延頸企踵延颈企踵
  • 延頸待刃延颈待刃
  • 延頸舉踵延颈举踵
  • 弔頸弔颈
  • 引頸引颈
  • 引頸受戮引颈受戮
  • 引頸受死引颈受死
  • 引頸就戮引颈就戮
  • 引頸翹望引颈翘望
  • 扭頭折頸扭头折颈
  • 斑頸鳩斑颈鸠
  • 曲頸甑曲颈甑
  • 燕頷虎頸燕颔虎颈
  • 瓶頸瓶颈 (píngjǐng)
  • 突破瓶頸突破瓶颈
  • 粉頸酥胸粉颈酥胸
  • 縊頸缢颈
  • 繫頸系颈
  • 脖頸兒脖颈儿
  • 脖頸子脖颈子
  • 長頸鳥喙长颈鸟喙
  • 長頸鹿长颈鹿 (chángjǐnglù)
  • 頭頸头颈
  • 頸動脈颈动脉
  • 頸動脈竇颈动脉窦
  • 頸椎颈椎 (jǐngzhuī)
  • 頸聯颈联
  • 頸肌颈肌
  • 頸血颈血 (jǐngxiě)
  • 頸部颈部
  • 頸靜脈颈静脉
  • 頸項颈项 (jǐngxiàng)
  • 鴛鴦折頸鸳鸯折颈

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana くび, romaji kubi)

  1. Alternative form of

Korean

Hanja

(gyeong) (hangeul , revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(nghỉnh, cảnh)

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