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馨

馨

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (殸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
殸 *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs
聲 *qʰjeŋ
謦 *kʰeːŋʔ, *kʰeːŋs
磬 *kʰeːŋs
罄 *kʰeːŋs
馨 *qʰeːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰeːŋ) : phonetic 殸 ‎(OC *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs) + semantic 香 ‎(“sweet”).

Han character

馨 (radical 186 香+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 土水竹木日 (GEHDA), four-corner 47609, composition ⿱殸香)

  1. fragrant, aromatic
  2. distant fragrance

References

  • KangXi: page 1429, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44559
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1956, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4425, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+99A8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 馨

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 馨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 呼刑切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /heŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /heŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /xeŋ/
Wang
Li		 /xieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xīng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 馨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xīn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xeng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰˤeŋ/
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 馨
Reading # 1/1
No. 10520
Phonetic
component		 殸
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 馨
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰeːŋ/

Definitions

馨

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Japanese

Kanji

馨

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

馨 ‎(hiragana かおる, romaji Kaoru)

  1. A unisex given name

Korean

Hanja

馨 • ‎(hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune-Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

馨 (hinh, hanh, hênh)

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