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匈
匈
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Translingual
Han character
匈 (radical 20 勹+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心山大 (PUK), four-corner 27720, composition ⿹勹凶)
- breast, chest, thorax
- clamour
- the Xiongnu (sometimes referred to as the Huns) and by extension 'Hungary'.
References
- KangXi: page 151, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2512
- Dae Jaweon: page 340, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 258, character 5
- Unihan data for U+5308
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
匈 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 匈
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| Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (凶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 酗 | *qʰos |
| 凶 | *qʰoŋ |
| 匈 | *qʰoŋ |
| 兇 | *qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ |
| 訩 | *qʰoŋ |
| 胸 | *qʰoŋ |
| 胷 | *qʰoŋ |
| 洶 | *qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ |
| 恟 | *qʰoŋ |
| 詾 | *qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ |
Pictogram (象形) : breast, chest. The derivative 胸 refers to the original word.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄥ
- Wade-Giles: hsiung1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiong
- IPA (key): /ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hung1
- Yale: hūng
- Cantonese Pinyin: hung1
- IPA (key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
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| Character | 匈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 鍾 (7) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 許容切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/hɨoŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/hioŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/xioŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/huawŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/xioŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/xĭwoŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/xi̯woŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xiōng |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 匈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13890 |
| Phonetic component |
凶 |
| Rime group |
東 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
胷 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qʰoŋ/ |
| Notes | 説文胷字見集韻 |
Definitions
匈
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Usage notes
This character is only used in some proper nouns and is not productive in Modern Chinese. See 匈奴 and 匈牙利.
Japanese
Kanji
匈
Readings
Noun
Korean
Hanja
匈 • (hyung) (hangeul 흉, revised hyung, McCune-Reischauer hyung)
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Vietnamese
Han character
匈 (hung)
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