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U+5704, 圄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5704

[U+5703]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5705]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 31 +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 田一一口 (WMMR), four-corner 60601, composition)

  1. prison, jail

References

  • KangXi: page 219, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4775
  • Dae Jaweon: page 446, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 719, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5704

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ŋraː, *ŋaː
*ŋraː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ
*ŋaː
*ŋaː
*ŋaː
*ŋaː
*ŋaː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ
*ŋaː
*ŋaː
*ŋaː
峿 *ŋaː
*ŋaːʔ
*ŋaːʔ
*ŋaːs
*ŋaːs
*ŋaːs
*ŋaːs
*ŋaːs
*ŋaːs
*ŋaːs
*ŋa, *ŋaʔ
*ŋaʔ, *ŋas
*ŋaʔ
*ŋaʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋaʔ) : semantic  (enclosure) + phonetic  (OC *ŋraː, *ŋaː).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋiɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋɨə̆X/
Li
Rong
/ŋiɔX/
Wang
Li
/ŋĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋi̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngjoX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-qʰ<r>aʔ/
English prison

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13160
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. prison

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(eo) (hangeul , revised eo, McCune-Reischauer ŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ngữ, )

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References