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Translingual

Han character

(radical 46 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月廿山 (BTU), four-corner 77220, composition)

  1. ridge or crest of hill

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 308, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7962
  • Dae Jaweon: page 608, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 100, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5CA1

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*klaːŋ
*klaːŋ
*klaːŋ
*klaːŋ, *klaːŋs
*klaːŋ, *klaːŋs
*klaːŋ
*klaːŋ
*klaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *klaːŋ) : phonetic  (OC *mlaŋʔ, net) + semantic  (hill).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaŋ/
Li
Rong
/kɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/kɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gāng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 3711
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*klaːŋ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. ridge or crest of a hill; mound

Compounds

  • 奧勒岡州奥勒冈州
  • 山岡山冈 (shāngāng)
  • 岡岑冈岑
  • 岡巒冈峦
  • 岡渡拉冈渡拉
  • 岡連嶺屬冈连岭属
  • 岡陵冈陵
  • 崑岡昆冈
  • 梵蒂岡梵蒂冈 (Fàndìgāng)
  • 瀧岡泷冈
  • 臥龍岡卧龙冈
  • 雲岡云冈

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. hill

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gang) (hangeul , revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cương)

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