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Translingual

Stroke order
Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

(radical 145 +11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜口口女 (YRRV), four-corner 00732)

  1. aid, help, assist
  2. undress

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1123, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34556
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1591, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3109, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8944

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*naːŋ
*naːŋ, *sraŋ, *hnjaŋs, *njaŋʔ
*naːŋʔ
*naːŋʔ, *naːŋs
*naːŋs
*naŋ, *njaŋ
*naŋ, *njaŋ
*naŋ, *njaŋ
*naŋs
*snaŋ, *snaŋ
*snaŋ
*snaŋ
*snaŋ
*snaŋ
*snaŋ, *njaŋs
*hnjaŋ, *hnjaŋʔ, *hnjaŋs
*njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, *njaŋs
*njaŋ
*njaŋ, *njaŋʔ
*njaŋ, *njaŋʔ
*njaŋ
*njaŋ
*njaŋ
*njaŋ
*njaŋ, *rnaːŋ
*njaŋ
*njaŋʔ
*njaŋʔ
*njaŋs
*njaŋs
*rnoːŋʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/siɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/siaŋ/
Wang
Li
/sĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāng xiāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjang › ‹ sjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-naŋ/ /*s-naŋ/
English remove Xiāng (personal name)

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. 13620
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*snaŋ/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 秦襄公
  • 襄事
  • 襄助
  • 襄河
  • 襄理
  • 襄陵

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(yang) (hangeul , revised yang, McCune-Reischauer yang, Yale yang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tương)

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