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庚
庚
Translingual
Han character
庚 (radical 53 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈中人 (ILO), four-corner 00237)
- the seventh of the ten heavenly stems
Derived characters
See also
References
- KangXi: page 344, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9278
- Dae Jaweon: page 654, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 879, character 6
- Unihan data for U+5E9A
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
庚 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 唐 | *ɡl'aːŋ |
| 煻 | *l'aːŋ |
| 糖 | *l'aːŋ |
| 搪 | *l'aːŋ |
| 蓎 | *l'aːŋ |
| 瑭 | *l'aːŋ |
| 餹 | *l'aːŋ |
| 篖 | *l'aːŋ |
| 螗 | *l'aːŋ |
| 塘 | *l'aːŋ |
| 鶶 | *l'aːŋ |
| 赯 | *l'aːŋ |
| 磄 | *l'aːŋ |
| 溏 | *l'aːŋ |
| 傏 | *l'aːŋ |
| 鎕 | *l'aːŋ |
| 榶 | *l'aːŋ |
| 嵣 | *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs |
| 庚 | *kraːŋ |
| 賡 | *kraːŋ |
| 鹒 | *kraːŋ |
| 康 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 穅 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 糠 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 槺 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 漮 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 躿 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 慷 | *kʰlaːŋʔ |
Pictogram (象形) – a flail and a threshing device.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄥ
- Wade-Giles: kêng1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geng
- IPA (key): /kɤŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gang1
- Yale: gāng
- Cantonese Pinyin: gang1
- IPA (key): /kɐŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kâng
- Hakka Romanization System: gang´
- Hagfa Pinyim: gang1
- IPA: /kaŋ²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: keⁿ / kiⁿ / keng
- Tâi-lô: kenn / kinn / king
- Phofsit Daibuun: kvef, kvy, kefng
- IPA (Xiamen): /kẽ⁴⁴/, /kĩ⁴⁴/, /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kẽ³³/, /kĩ³³/, /kiɪŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɛ̃⁴⁴/, /kĩ⁴⁴/, /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kẽ⁴⁴/, /kĩ⁴⁴/, /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kẽ⁴⁴/, /kĩ⁴⁴/, /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- Note: keⁿ, kiⁿ - vernacular, keng - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: gên1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: keⁿ
- IPA (key): /kẽ³³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 庚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 庚 (109) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 古行切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kˠæŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kᵚaŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kaŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kaɨjŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/kɐŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/kɐŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kɐŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
gēng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 庚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
gēng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kæng › |
| Old Chinese |
/*kˤraŋ/ |
| English | 7th heavenly stem |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 庚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3978 |
| Phonetic component |
庚 |
| Rime group |
陽 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
庚 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kraːŋ/ |
Definitions
庚
- age
- the seventh of the ten heavenly stems (天干 (tiāngān))
- A surname.
References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #3886”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
庚
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
庚 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng)
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Vietnamese
Han character
庚 (canh)
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