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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木卜竹弓 (DYHN), four-corner 40917, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 513, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14494
  • Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1174, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+676D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs
*kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs
*kaːŋ
*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
*kʰaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
*kʰaːŋʔ, *qʰaːŋ
*kʰaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *qaːŋ
*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
*kʰaːŋs, *qʰaːŋ
*kʰaːŋs
*kʰaːŋs
*kʰaːŋs
*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
*kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
*kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
*ɡaːŋ
*ɡaːŋ
*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
*ɡaːŋ
*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋs
*kraːŋ
*kʰraːŋ
*kʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaːŋ) : semantic  (wood) + phonetic  (OC *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs).

Originally a variant of (OC *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ, “to fight against”).

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦaŋ/
Li
Rong
/ɣɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/ɣɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
háng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
háng
Middle
Chinese
‹ hang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m]-[ɡ]ˤaŋ/
English to go by boat

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. 7383
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaːŋ/

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (háng, “boat; ship”).
  2. Alternative form of (háng, “to cross a stream; to ferry”).
  3. Alternative form of (háng, “to sail; to navigate”).
  4. (dialectal) suddenly; all of a sudden
  5. Short for 杭州 (Hángzhōu, “Hangzhou”).
  6. A surname.

Compounds

  • 杭筏
  • 杭紗杭纱
  • 杭紬杭䌷
  • 杭絕杭绝

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (kāng, “broad road”).
    /    kāngzhuāng   broad road

Pronunciation 3


Definitions

  1. Alternative form of (kàng, “to resist; to fight”).
  2. Alternative form of (kàng, “to raise; to lift up”).
  3. Alternative form of (kàng, “high”).

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana くい, romaji kui)

  1. stake, pile, post

Alternative forms


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cáng, hàng, khiêng)

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