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競

競

See also: 竞 and 竸

Translingual

Han character

競 (radical 117 立+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜山卜廿山 (YUYTU), four-corner 0021₆, composition ⿰⿱立兄⿱立兄)

contend, vie, compete

References

KangXi: page 873, character 22

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25831

Dae Jaweon: page 1304, character 22

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2717, character 2

Unihan data for U+7AF6

Chinese

trad.		競
simp.		竞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 競
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (誩) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
誩	ɡaŋʔ, ɡraŋs, *l̥ʰuːms
競	*ɡraŋs

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): jìng (jing⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ging⁶, ging³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: jìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˋ
  - Wade-Giles: ching⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinq
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ging⁶, ging³
  - Yale: gihng, ging
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ging⁶, ging³
  - IPA ^(key): /kɪŋ²²/, /kɪŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: /ɡˠiæŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	競
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠敬切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiæŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚiaŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiaŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/giajŋ^H/
Li Rong	/ɡiɐŋ^H/
Wang Li	/ɡĭɐŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯ɐŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jìng

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*m-kraŋʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡraŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	競
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jìng
Middle Chinese	‹ gjæng^H ›
Old Chinese	/*m-kraŋʔ-s/ (~ C-kraŋʔ-s)
English	strive; compete
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	競
Reading #	1/1
No.	6893
Phonetic component	誩
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	競
Old Chinese	/*ɡraŋs/

Definitions

競

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Japanese

Kanji

競

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

competition
to compete

Readings

Goon: ぎょう (gyō)

Kan’on: けい (kei)

Kan’yōon: きょう (kyō)

Kun: きおう (競う, kiou), きおい (競 / 競い, kioi), きそう (競う, kisou), きそい (競 / 競い, kisoi), くらべる (競べる, kuraberu), くらべ (競 / 競べ, kurabe), くら (競, kura), せる (競る, seru), せり (競 / 競り, seri)

Korean

Hanja

競 • ‎(gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

競 (cạnh, ganh)

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