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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 59 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹竹竹 (YJHHH), four-corner 02422, composition)

  1. clear, manifest, obvious

References

  • KangXi: page 364, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10015
  • Dae Jaweon: page 684, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 857, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5F70

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
*kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋ
*kjaŋs
*kjaŋs

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhāng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 16819
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kjaŋ/

Definitions

  1. clear; obvious; conspicuous.

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. obvious, clear

Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(chang) (hangeul , revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References