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卬

卬

卬 U+536C, 卬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-536C
← 卫
[U+536B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卭 →
[U+536D]
See also: 卯 and 卵

Translingual

Han character

卬 (radical 26 卩+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹女尸中 (HVSL), four-corner 27720)

  1. lofty
  2. high
  3. to raise, lift up
  4. high-priced

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 158, character 49
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2841
  • Dae Jaweon: page 363, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 310, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+536C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 卬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卬
Oracle bone script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (卬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卬 *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ
枊 *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaːŋs
昂 *ŋaːŋ
仰 *ŋaŋʔ, *ŋaŋs
迎 *ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 匕 + 卩: a man standing and a man kneeling; compare 化.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 卬 卬
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 疑 (31) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 唐 (101) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 五岡切 魚兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɑŋ/ /ŋɨɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɑŋ/ /ŋiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɑŋ/ /ŋiɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋaŋ/ /ŋɨaŋX/
Li
Rong		 /ŋɑŋ/ /ŋiaŋX/
Wang
Li		 /ŋɑŋ/ /ŋĭaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋɑŋ/ /ŋi̯aŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 áng yǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 卬 卬
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 áng áng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngang › ‹ ngang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k.ŋ]ˤaŋ/ /*ŋˤaŋ/
English high; lift high I, me

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 卬 卬
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 27 32
Phonetic
component		 卬 卬
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 卬 仰
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːŋ/ /*ŋaŋʔ/

Definitions

卬

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Japanese

Kanji

卬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. lofty
  2. high
  3. raise
  4. high-priced

Readings

Korean

Hanja

卬 • ‎(ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune-Reischauer ang)

  1. I, oneself
  2. high
  3. raise

Vietnamese

Han character

卬 (ngang, ngàng)

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