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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸一土 (HSMG), four-corner 88711)

  1. bamboo basket or chest

References

  • KangXi: page 883, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26001
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2961, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7B50

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋʔ
*qʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋs, *qʷaŋʔ
*qʷaːŋ
*kʷaŋʔ, *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
*kʷaŋʔ
*kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
*kʰʷaŋ
*kʰʷaŋ
*kʰʷaŋ
*kʰʷaŋ
*kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
*kʰʷaŋ
*kʰʷaŋ
*kʰʷaŋ
*kʰʷaŋ
*kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ
*ɡʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
*ɡʷaŋ
*ɡʷaŋ
*ɡʷaŋʔ
*ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
*ɢʷaŋ
*ɢʷaŋ
*ɢʷaŋs
*qʰʷraːŋ
*qʰʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
*ɡʷraːŋ
*ɡʷraːŋ
*ɡʷaŋ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kʰuɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /kʰuaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kʰuɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /kʰuaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /kʰuaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kʰuaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰuaŋ²¹/
Xining /kʰuɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kʰuɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /kʰuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /kʰuã̠/
Nanjing /kʰuaŋ³¹/
Hefei /kʰuɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰuɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /kʰuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /kʰuɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /kʰuɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /kʰuɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰuɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰyɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /kʰo³¹/
/t͡ɕʰia³¹/
Tunxi /kʰau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kʰuan³³/
Xiangtan /kʰuɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kʰioŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kʰioŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔŋ⁵³/
/kʰwaŋ⁵⁵/
Nanning /hɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /hɔŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰɔŋ⁵⁵/
/kʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰuoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰiɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰeŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xiaŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (106)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰʉɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰiuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰuaŋ/
Li
Rong
/kʰiuaŋ/
Wang
Li
/kʰĭwaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰiwaŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khjwang ›
Old
Chinese
/*k-pʰaŋ/
English square basket

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. 12722
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷaŋ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwang) (hangeul , revised gwang, McCune-Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

  1. (광주리): basket made of bamboo

Vietnamese

Han character

(khuông)

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