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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月廿女 (VFBTV), four-corner 27920, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 928, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27577
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1365, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3414, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7DB2

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*maːŋ
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*maːŋ
*maːŋ
*maːŋ, *maːŋs
*maːŋ, *maŋs
*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
*hmaːŋʔ
*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*maŋ
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*mlaŋʔ
*mlaŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*mlaŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋs
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mlaŋʔ) : semantic  (rope) + phonetic  (OC *mlaŋʔ).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /uɑŋ²¹⁴/
Harbin /uaŋ²¹³/
Tianjin /vɑŋ¹³/
Jinan /vaŋ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /vaŋ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uaŋ⁵³/
Xi'an /vaŋ⁵³/
Xining /uɔ̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /vɑŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /vɑ̃⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /vɑŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /uaŋ⁴²/
Chengdu /uaŋ⁵³/
Guiyang /uaŋ⁴²/
Kunming /uã̠/
Nanjing /uaŋ²¹²/
Hefei /uɑ̃²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /vɒ̃⁵³/
Pingyao /uɑŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /vɑ̃⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /mɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /mɑ̃³¹/
Hangzhou /mɑŋ⁵³/
Wenzhou /muɔ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /o³⁵/
Tunxi /mau²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /uan⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ɔn⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /uɔŋ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /mioŋ³¹/
Taoyuan /mioŋ³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɔŋ²³/
Nanning /mɔŋ²⁴/
Hong Kong /mɔŋ¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bɔŋ²²/
/baŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uoŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /mɔŋ⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /maŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /maŋ³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (106)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mʉɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/mʷiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muaŋX/
Li
Rong
/miuaŋX/
Wang
Li
/mĭwaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/miwaŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wǎng
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjangX ›
Old
Chinese
/*maŋʔ/ (or *C.maŋʔ ?)
English net

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. 12676
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mlaŋʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. net; web
  2. network
  3. Short for 互聯網互联网 (Hùliánwǎng, “Internet”).

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Verbal noun of 編む.

Noun

(hiragana あみ, romaji ami)

  1. net, netting

Suffix

(hiragana もう, romaji -mō)

  1. network

Korean

Hanja

(mang)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (McCune-Reischauer: mang, Yale: mang)
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Vietnamese

Han character

(võng)

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