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Translingual

Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Alternative forms

Note that in Chinese, the bottom is , while in Japanese, the bottom is .

Han character

(radical 49 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿金口山 (TCRU), four-corner 44717, composition)

  1. alley, lane

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 327, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8756
  • Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 986, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5DF7

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
*ɡroːŋs
*ɡroːŋs
*ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
*qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
*ɡloːŋ
*ɡloːŋ
*ɡloːŋ
*ɡoːŋ
*ɡloːŋs
*ɡloːŋs
*kloŋ
*kloŋ, *kloŋs
*kloŋ
*kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
*kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
*kloŋ
*kloŋʔ
*kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
*kloŋʔ
*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
*ɡloŋ
*kloɡ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕiaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕiɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /ɕiaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕiaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /xaŋ²¹/ ~子
/xaŋ⁴⁴/ 地名
Xining /xɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /xɑŋ¹³/
/ɕiɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /xɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /xɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /xaŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /xaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /xaŋ²¹³/
/ɕiaŋ/
Kunming /xã̠¹/
Nanjing /ɕiaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕiɑŋ³⁵/
/xuə³⁵/ 巷子
Hohhot /xɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /ɦɑ̃³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦiɑŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦuɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /xa²²/
Tunxi /xau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /xan⁵⁵/
/xan¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɦɔn²¹/
Gan Nanchang /hɔŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /hoŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /hoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔŋ²²/
Nanning /hɔŋ³⁵/
Hong Kong /hɔŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /haŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hɔyŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /haŋ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /haŋ³⁵/
/ho²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (9)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠʌŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦᵚɔŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɔŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦaɨwŋH/
Li
Rong
/ɣɔŋH/
Wang
Li
/ɣɔŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣɔŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiàng
Middle
Chinese
‹ hæwngH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.[ɡ]ˤroŋ-s/
English lane, street

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. 4151
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡroːŋs/

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. street, lane; crossroads, fork in the road
  2. town, neighborhood; public

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hang) (hangeul , revised hang, McCune-Reischauer hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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