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U+7A79, 穹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A79

[U+7A78]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7A7A]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 116 +3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十金弓 (JCN), four-corner 30207)

  1. high and vast
  2. elevated
  3. arched

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 862, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25414
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1289, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2721, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7A79

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷɯŋ
*kʰʷɯŋ
*kʰʷɯŋ, *kʰʷɯŋs
*kʰʷɯŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰʷɯŋ) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *kʷɯŋ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰiuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰiuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰuwŋ/
Li
Rong
/kʰiuŋ/
Wang
Li
/kʰĭuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰi̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qiōng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 4080
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷɯŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 天穹
  • 玄穹
  • 穹壤
  • 穹天
  • 穹廬穹庐
  • 穹隆
  • 穹靈穹灵
  • 蒼穹苍穹
  • 隆穹
  • 顥穹颢穹

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. high arching vault
  2. sky

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gung) (hangeul , revised gung, McCune-Reischauer kung, Yale kwung)

  1. {하늘 궁): sky, heaven
  2. ( 궁): arc, arch, arched

Synonyms

  • (gong, 공)