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羌

羌

Translingual

Han character

羌 (radical 123 羊+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿土竹山 (TGHU) or 廿手山 (TQU), four-corner 80211, composition ⿸⺶乚)

  1. Qiang nationality
  2. used as a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 951, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28429
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3125, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7F8C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 羌

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (羊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
样 *ʔslaːŋ, *laŋ
佯 *zlaŋ, *laŋ
詳 *ljaŋ, *laŋ
洋 *ljaŋ, *laŋ
翔 *ljaŋ
庠 *ljaŋ
祥 *ljaŋ
痒 *ljaŋ, *laŋʔ
姜 *klaŋ
羌 *kʰlaŋ
蜣 *kʰlaŋ
猐 *kʰlaŋ
唴 *kʰlaŋs
羊 *laŋ
徉 *laŋ
烊 *laŋ
蛘 *laŋ, *laŋʔ
眻 *laŋ, *laŋs
鴹 *laŋ
恙 *laŋs
羕 *laŋs
樣 *laŋs
漾 *laŋs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 羌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去羊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /kʰiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /kʰĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 羌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.qʰaŋ/
English western tribes

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 羌
Reading # 1/1
No. 14531
Phonetic
component		 羊
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 羌
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰlaŋ/

Definitions

羌

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Japanese

Kanji

羌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

羌 • ‎(gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

羌 (khương, cưng, gừng)

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