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楹

楹

Translingual

Han character

楹 (radical 75 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木弓尸廿 (DNST), four-corner 4791₇, composition ⿰木盈)

References

KangXi: page 542, character 9

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15188

Dae Jaweon: page 930, character 5

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1258, character 2

Unihan data for U+6979

Chinese

simp. and trad.		楹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (盈) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
盈	*leŋ
楹	*leŋ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): yíng (ying²)

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jing⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: yíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄥˊ
  - Wade-Giles: ying²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yng
  - IPA ^(key): /iŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jing⁴
  - Yale: yìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jing⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: /jiᴇŋ/▼

Rime
Character	楹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以成切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/iæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiajŋ/
Li Rong	/iɛŋ/
Wang Li	/jĭɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yíng

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*leŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*leŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	楹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yíng
Middle Chinese	‹ yeng ›
Old Chinese	/*leŋ/
English	pillar
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	楹
Reading #	1/1
No.	15353
Phonetic component	盈
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	盈
Old Chinese	/*leŋ/

Definitions

楹

column, pillar
numerary adjunct

Japanese

Kanji

楹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: えい (ei)

Kun: はしら (hashira)

Korean

Hanja

楹 • ‎(yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

楹 (doanh)

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