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Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 戈X水 (IXE), four-corner 00247)

  1. congratulate, celebrate

References

  • KangXi: page 400, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11145
  • Dae Jaweon: page 740, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 903, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6176

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰraŋ
*kʰlaŋs

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰiŋ²¹/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕʰiŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕʰiə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰiŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰĩn¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰiŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰin³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰin¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰin²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰĩ¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕʰin⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰin⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰiəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰĩŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕʰin⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕʰin⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰaŋ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰiʌ̃³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiɛ⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰin²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /kʰin⁵³/
Taoyuan /kʰin⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /heŋ³³/
Nanning /heŋ³³/
Hong Kong /hiŋ³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰiŋ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰɛiŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰeiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰeŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xeŋ³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (111)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠiæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰᵚiaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰiaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰiajŋH/
Li
Rong
/kʰiɐŋH/
Wang
Li
/kʰĭɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰi̯ɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qìng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khjængH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[kʰ]raŋ-s/
English happy, rejoice

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 10521
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰraŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 慶典庆典
  • 慶壽庆寿
  • 慶大霉素庆大霉素

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. jubilation

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gyeong, gang)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): ,  (revised: gyeong, gang, McCune-Reischauer: kyŏng, kang, Yale: kyeng, kang)
  • Name (hangeul): 경사 경()
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Vietnamese

Han character

(khánh, khương)

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