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Translingual

Han character

(radical 127 +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手木廿廿 (QDTT), four-corner 55900, composition)

  1. plow, cultivate

References

  • KangXi: page 962, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28907
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1410, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2770, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8015

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰreːŋ, *ɡeːŋ
*kreːŋ
*keŋ
*skeŋʔ
*kloːmʔ, *skeŋʔ
*sɡeŋʔ
*sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
*sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
*sɡeːŋʔ
*ɡeːŋ
*ɡeːŋ
*ɡeːŋ
*ɡeːŋ
*ɡeːŋ
*ɡeːŋ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kəŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
/kəŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kəŋ²¹/
Jinan /kəŋ²¹³/
/t͡ɕiŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kəŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /kəŋ²¹/
Xining /kə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kəŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /kɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ken⁵⁵/
Kunming /kə̃/
Nanjing /kən³¹/
Hefei /kən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kəŋ¹¹/ 農~
/t͡ɕiəŋ¹¹/ ~地
Pingyao /kəŋ¹³/
/t͡ɕie̞¹³/ ~地
Hohhot /kə̃ŋ³¹/ 春~
/t͡ɕĩŋ³¹/ ~地
Wu Shanghai /kəŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /kən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ken³³/
Wenzhou /kiɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /kʌ̃³¹/
/kɛ³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kən³³/
Xiangtan /kən³³/
Gan Nanchang /kɑŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kaŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kɑŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kɐŋ⁵³/
/kaŋ⁵³/
Nanning /kaŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kɐŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɛiŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kaiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kẽ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /keŋ²³/
/kɔŋ²³/
/kɛ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəɨjŋ/
Li
Rong
/kɛŋ/
Wang
Li
/kæŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kɛng ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˤ<r>eŋ/
English plow (v.)

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. 6850
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreːŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds

References


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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Vietnamese

Han character

(canh)

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