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Translingual

Han character

(radical 102 +8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一田一一 (MWMM), composition ⿳⿱⿱一田一)

  1. field, border, territory, limit
  2. strong
  3. delimit

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 765, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21895
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1176, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2545, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+757A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
橿 *kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ
*kaŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  +  (fields) — divided fields. This character was replaced by and survives today as a phonetic component.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/kiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/kĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*kaŋ/
English boundary, limit

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. 6254
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaŋ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. boundary
  2. border

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gang) (hangeul , revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

  1. boundary
  2. border
  3. country
  4. territory

Vietnamese

Han character

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