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U+5244, 剄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5244

[U+5243]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5245]
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Translingual

Han character

(radical 18 +7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一一中弓 (MMLN), four-corner 12100, composition)

  1. to cut one's throat (Chinese ritual suicide, like seppuku in Japan)

Synonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 139, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1990
  • Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 340, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5244

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 *keːŋʔ) : phonetic  (OC *keːŋ) + semantic  (knife)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (125)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/keŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/keŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɛŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɛjŋX/
Li
Rong
/keŋX/
Wang
Li
/kieŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kieŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jǐng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kengX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˤeŋʔ/
English cut the throat

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 # 1/1
No. 6803
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*keːŋʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 自剄自刭

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 剄死

Korean

Hanja

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

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