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嚮

嚮

嚮	U+56AE, 嚮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56AE

← 嚭
[U+56AD]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嚯 →
[U+56AF]

See also: 向

Translingual

Han character

嚮 (radical 30 口+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 女中竹月口 (VLHBR), four-corner 2722₇, composition ⿱鄉向)

guide, direct
incline to, favor

References

KangXi: page 213, character 38

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4565

Dae Jaweon: page 436, character 17

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 698, character 8

Unihan data for U+56AE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嚮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鄉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
曏	qʰjaŋʔ, qʰjaŋs, qʰaŋʔ, qʰaŋs
鄉	*qʰaŋ
薌	*qʰaŋ
膷	*qʰaŋ
響	*qʰaŋʔ
饗	*qʰaŋʔ
蠁	qʰaŋʔ, qʰaŋs
嚮	qʰaŋʔ, qʰaŋs
卿	*kʰraŋ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): xiàng (xiang⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hoeng², hoeng³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: xiàng
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˋ
  - Wade-Giles: hsiang⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shianq
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hoeng², hoeng³
  - Yale: héung, heung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hoeng², hoeng³
  - IPA ^(key): /hœːŋ³⁵/, /hœːŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: /hɨɐŋ^X/, /hɨɐŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	嚮	嚮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	許兩切	許亮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨɐŋ^X/	/hɨɐŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/hiɐŋ^X/	/hiɐŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/xiɑŋ^X/	/xiɑŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɨaŋ^X/	/hɨaŋ^H/
Li Rong	/xiaŋ^X/	/xiaŋ^H/
Wang Li	/xĭaŋ^X/	/xĭaŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯aŋ^X/	/xi̯aŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiǎng	xiàng

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*qʰaŋ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰaŋʔ/, /*qʰaŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嚮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiàng
Middle Chinese	‹ xjang^H ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰaŋ-s/
English	to face, approach
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	嚮	嚮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13602	13606
Phonetic component	鄉	鄉
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	響	向
Old Chinese	/*qʰaŋʔ/	/*qʰaŋs/
Notes		鄉轉註分化字

Definitions

嚮

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Japanese

Kanji

嚮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: こう (kō), きょう (kyō)

Kun: むかう (mukau), さきに (sakini)

Korean

Hanja

嚮 • ‎(hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嚮 (hướng, hưởng)

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