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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
橿 *kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ
*kaŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ) : semantic  (bow) + phonetic  (OC *kaŋ).

Bow is powerful.

Han character

(radical 57 +13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓一田一 (NMWM), four-corner 11216, composition)

  1. stubborn, uncompromising

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 361, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9872
  • Dae Jaweon: page 679, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1003, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5F4A

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cương, cường)

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