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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 79 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土竹竹弓水 (GHHNE), composition)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 585, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16633
  • Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2159, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6BB8

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (29) (29)
Final () (117) (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠɛŋ/ /kʰeŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰᵚæŋ/ /kʰeŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɐŋ/ /kʰɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰəɨjŋ/ /kʰɛjŋH/
Li
Rong
/kʰɛŋ/ /kʰeŋH/
Wang
Li
/kʰæŋ/ /kʰieŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰæŋ/ /kʰieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kēng qìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qìng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khengH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[C.qʰ]ˤeŋ-s/
English hanging musical stone

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 10513 10516
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰreːŋ/ /*kʰeːŋs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. enemy

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. voice

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(seong) (hangeul , revised seong, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

  1. voice
  2. elegance
  3. song
  4. honor