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Translingual

Han character

(radical 167 +15, 23 strokes, cangjie input 金戈廿金 (CITC) or XX金戈廿 (XXCIT))

Related characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1325, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41010
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1826, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4268, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+945B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋ
*kʷaːŋʔ
*kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
*kʰʷaːŋs
*kʰʷaːŋs
*kʰʷaːŋs
*kʰʷaːŋs
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋ
*ɡʷaːŋʔ
*ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
*qʷaːŋʔ
*kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
*kʷraːŋ
*kʷraːŋʔ
*kʷraːŋʔ
*kʷraːŋʔ
*ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
*ɡʷraːŋ
*ɡʷraːŋ
*qʰʷraːŋ
*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʷraːŋʔ) : semantic  (metal) + phonetic  (OC *kʷaːŋʔ).

Etymology

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“mine; mineral; ore”).
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwang) (hangeul , revised gwang, McCune-Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

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