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Translingual

Han character

(radical 181 +10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 水木一月金 (EDMBC), four-corner 11986)

  1. the forehead
  2. to kowtow

References

  • KangXi: page 1408, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43624
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1926, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4388, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9859

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sŋaːŋ
*sŋaːŋ
*sŋaːŋʔ
*sŋaːŋʔ
*sŋaːŋʔ
*sŋaːŋʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɑŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/sɑŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/saŋX/
Li
Rong
/sɑŋX/
Wang
Li
/sɑŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sɑŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
sǎng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sangX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]ˤaŋʔ/
English forehead

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. 10982
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sŋaːŋʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 乾顙干颡
  • 大顙大颡
  • 泣血稽顙泣血稽颡
  • 浪聲顙氣浪声颡气
  • 稽顙稽颡
  • 稽顙泣血稽颡泣血
  • 稽顙肉袒稽颡肉袒
  • 頂顙顶颡
  • 頓顙顿颡
  • 顙子颡子

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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