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影

影

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

影 (radical 59 彡+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日火竹竹竹 (AFHHH), four-corner 62922, composition ⿰景彡)

References

  • KangXi: page 364, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10019
  • Dae Jaweon: page 684, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 857, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5F71

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 影

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (京) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涼 *ɡ·raŋ, *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raŋs
凉 *ɡ·raŋ
椋 *ɡ·raŋ
綡 *ɡ·raŋ
輬 *ɡ·raŋ
諒 *ɡ·raŋs
掠 *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raɡ
弶 *ɡaŋs
京 *kraŋ
麖 *kraŋ
鶁 *kraŋ
景 *kraŋʔ
鯨 *ɡraŋ
黥 *ɡraŋ
勍 *ɡraŋ
剠 *ɡraŋ
倞 *ɡraŋs
影 *qraŋʔ
璟 *qraŋʔ, *kʷraŋʔ
憬 *kʷraŋʔ
暻 *kʷraŋʔ
澋 *ɡʷraːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qraŋʔ) : phonetic 景 ‎(OC *kraŋʔ) + semantic 彡.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 影
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於丙切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiæŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚiaŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiaŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔiajŋX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiɐŋX/
Wang
Li		 /ĭɐŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ɐŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 影
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjængX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qraŋʔ/
English shadow (n.)

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 影
Reading # 1/1
No. 6837
Phonetic
component		 京
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 影
Old
Chinese		 /*qraŋʔ/
Notes 古作景，顏之推說葛洪字苑始加彡

Definitions

影

  1. shadow
  2. image
  3. trace (of human presence); presence (of people or things); occurrence (of events)
  4. picture; photograph
  5. (Cantonese) to take (a picture)

Synonyms

  • (to take a picture): (Mandarin) 拍 (pāi)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

影

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Unbound apophonic form of 影 ‎(kaga).

Noun

影 ‎(hiragana かが, romaji kaga)

  1. light
  2. a shape or form reflected in light
  3. a shadow
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
影
かげ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

影 ‎(kaga) +‎ い ‎(i) > kage. Bound apophonic form of 影 ‎(kaga).

Pronunciation

Noun

影 ‎(hiragana かげ, romaji kage)

  1. light
  2. a shape or form reflected in light
  3. shadow

See also

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

影 • ‎(yeong) (hangeul 영)

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Vietnamese

Han character

影 (ảnh)

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