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亙

亙

亙 U+4E99, 亙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E99
← 亘
[U+4E98] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 亚 →
[U+4E9A]
See also: 亘

Translingual

Han character

亙 (radical 7 二+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一月一 (MBM), four-corner 10106)

  1. extend across, through
  2. from

References

  • KangXi: page 87, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 265
  • Dae Jaweon: page 183, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 19, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+4E99

Chinese

trad. 亙
simp. 亘
alt. forms 亘
𠀕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 亙
Large seal script

L07237

L24478

L24479

L24480
Small seal script

s04388
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (亙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
搄 *kɯːŋ, *kɯːŋs
縆 *kɯːŋ, *kɯːŋs
絙 *ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
亙 *kɯːŋs
堩 *kɯːŋs
恒 *ɡɯːŋ
峘 *ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 亙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gèn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kongH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤəŋ-s/
English continuous; constant

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 亙
Reading # 1/1
No. 5122
Phonetic
component		 亙
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 亘
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯːŋs/
Notes 原作亙雲出方言，方言作緪。通行作此字，見漢賦，近甲文與說文㮓古文，中本象上弦月

Definitions

亙

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Compounds

  • 亙古／亘古 (gèngǔ)
  • 亙古亙今／亘古亘今
  • 亙古未有／亘古未有
  • 綿亙／绵亘
  • 連亙／连亘

Japanese

Kanji

亙

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. request

Readings

Korean

Hanja

亙 • ‎(geung) (hangeul 긍, revised geung, McCune-Reischauer kŭng, Yale kung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

亙 (cẳng, cắng, cứng, gắng, hẵng)

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References

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