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驚

驚

See also: 惊

Translingual

Han character

驚 (radical 187 馬+13, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿大尸手火 (TKSQF), four-corner 48327, composition ⿱敬馬)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1446, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45013
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1970, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4576, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9A5A

Chinese

trad. 驚
simp. 惊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 驚
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (敬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蟼 *kraː, *kreŋ, *kreŋʔ
憼 *kaŋʔ, *kreŋʔ
驚 *kreŋ
警 *kreŋʔ
儆 *kreŋʔ, *ɡreŋs
璥 *keŋʔ
檠 *kreŋʔ, *ɡreŋ, *ɡreŋs
敬 *kreŋs
擎 *ɡreŋ
曔 *ɡreŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kreŋ) : phonetic 敬 ‎(OC *kreŋs) + semantic 馬, as horses are skittish (easily startled).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 驚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舉卿切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kiajŋ/
Li
Rong		 /kiɐŋ/
Wang
Li		 /kĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jīng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 驚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jīng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjæng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kreŋ/
English be afraid

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 驚
Reading # 1/1
No. 6877
Phonetic
component		 敬
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 驚
Old
Chinese		 /*kreŋ/

Definitions

驚

  1. to fear; to be afraid
  2. (of a horse etc.) to be startled; to shy
  3. to frighten; to scare
  4. scary; frightening
  5. fearfully; I'm afraid that ...

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

驚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Derived terms

Readings

Korean

Hanja

驚 • ‎(gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

驚 (kinh)

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