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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)

  1. 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

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;
* 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 庚
Reading # 1/1
No. 3978
Phonetic
component		 庚
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 庚
Old
Chinese		 /*kraːŋ/

Definitions

庚

  1. age
  2. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems (天干 (tiāngān))
  3. A surname​.

References

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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