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衡

衡

Translingual

Han character

衡 (radical 144 行+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹人弓大弓 (HONKN), four-corner 21221, composition ⿲彳𩵋亍)

  1. measure, weigh, judge, consider

References

  • KangXi: page 1110, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34078
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1575, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 846, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8861

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 衡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (行) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
筕 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
桁 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
行 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
胻 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
衡 *ɡraːŋ
蘅 *ɡraːŋ
珩 *ɡraːŋ
洐 *ɡraːŋ
荇 *ɡraːŋʔ
絎 *ɡraːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡraːŋ) : phonetic 行 ‎(OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs) + semantic 角 ‎(“horn”) + semantic 大 ‎(“big”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 衡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 庚 (109)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 戸庚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaɨjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɐŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ɣɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 héng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 衡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 héng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hæng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤraŋ/
English beam of a steelyard

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 衡
Reading # 1/1
No. 13868
Phonetic
component		 行
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 行
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡraːŋ/

Definitions

衡

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Japanese

Kanji

衡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

  • 拡大均衡 (かくだいきんこう) ‎(kakudai kinkō)
  • 合従連衡 (がっしょうれんこう) ‎(gasshō renkō)
  • 均衡 (きんこう) ‎(kinkō)
  • 均衡価格 (きんこうかかく) ‎(kinkō kakaku)
  • 均衡経済 (きんこうけいざい) ‎(kinkō keizai)
  • 均衡予算 (きんこうよさん) ‎(kinkō yosan)
  • 権衡 (けんこう) ‎(kenkō)
  • 衡器 (こうき) ‎(kōki)
  • 衡平 (こうへい) ‎(kōhei)
  • 財政均衡計画 (ざいせいきんこうけいかく) ‎(zaisei kinkō keikaku)
  • 銓衡 (せんこう) ‎(senkō)
  • 度量衡 (どりょうこう) ‎(doryōkō)
  • 不均衡 (ふきんこう) ‎(fukinkō)
  • 平衡 (へいこう) ‎(heikō)
  • 平衡感覚 (へいこうかんかく) ‎(heikō kankaku)
  • 平衡錘 (へいこうすい) ‎(heikōsui)
  • 利子平衡税 (りしへいこうぜい) ‎(rishiheikōzei)
  • 連衡 (れんこう) ‎(renkō)

Noun

衡 ‎(hiragana くびき, romaji kubiki)

  1. Alternative form of 軛

Korean

Hanja

衡 • ‎(hyeong, hoeng) (hangeul 형, 횡, revised hyeong, hoeng, McCune-Reischauer hyŏng, hoeng, Yale hyeng, hoyng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

衡 (hành, hoành)

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