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央

央

Translingual

Han character

央 (radical 37 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中月大 (LBK), four-corner 50030)

  1. centre
  2. conclude
  3. run out
  4. beg

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 249, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5840
  • Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 524, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+592E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 央

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 央
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (央) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鴦 *qaːŋ, *qaŋ
佒 *qaːŋ
咉 *qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
眏 *qaːŋ
姎 *qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
坱 *qaːŋʔ
映 *qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs
泱 *qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ
盎 *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
駚 *qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ
軮 *qaːŋʔ
醠 *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
央 *qaŋ
秧 *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ
殃 *qaŋ
鞅 *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
鉠 *qaŋ, *qraŋ
雵 *qaŋ
胦 *qaŋ, *qroːŋ
柍 *qaŋʔ
詇 *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs
岟 *qaŋʔ
炴 *qaŋʔ
怏 *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
紻 *qaŋʔ
英 *qraŋ
瑛 *qraŋ
霙 *qraŋ
韺 *qraŋ
媖 *qraŋ
渶 *qraŋ
鶧 *qraŋ
楧 *qraŋ
暎 *qraŋs

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 央
Mandarin Beijing /iɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /iaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /iɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /iaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /iaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /iaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /iaŋ²¹/
Xining /iɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /iɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /iɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /iaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /iaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /iaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /iã̠/
Nanjing /iaŋ³¹/
Hefei /iɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /iɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /iɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iã⁵³/
Suzhou /iã⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔiɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /j̠i³³/
Hui Shexian /ia³¹/
Tunxi /iau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ian³³/
Xiangtan /ian³³/
Gan Nanchang /iɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /ioŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /oŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jœŋ⁵³/
Nanning /jœŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jœŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iɔŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /yoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iɔŋ⁵⁴/
/ɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /iaŋ³³/
/ŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /iaŋ²³/
/o²³/
Rime
Character 央
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 央 央
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yāng yāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjang › ‹ ʔjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔaŋ/ /*ʔaŋ/
English end (v.) center (n.)

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 央
Reading # 1/1
No. 14488
Phonetic
component		 央
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 央
Old
Chinese		 /*qaŋ/

Definitions

央

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Compounds

  • 中央 (zhōngyāng)
  • 中央大學／中央大学
  • 中央山脈／中央山脉 (Zhōngyāng Shānmài)
  • 中央政府
  • 中央銀行／中央银行
  • 中央集權／中央集权 (zhōngyāng jíquán)
  • 中央黨部／中央党部
  • 公央婆
  • 夜未央
  • 央中
  • 央人
  • 央人作伐
  • 央元音
  • 央厄
  • 央及 (yāngjí)
  • 央告 (yānggao)
  • 央央
  • 央央戧戧
  • 央央插插
  • 央媒
  • 央帶／央带
  • 央戧
  • 央托
  • 央求 (yāngqiú)
  • 央浼
  • 央浼營幹／央浼营干
  • 央煩／央烦
  • 央行
  • 央託／央托 (yāngtuō)
  • 央請／央请
  • 央靠
  • 念央兒／念央儿
  • 投央
  • 未央 (wèiyāng)
  • 未央宮／未央宫 (Wèiyāng Gōng)
  • 東央西告／东央西告
  • 死告活央
  • 無央／无央
  • 長樂未央／长乐未央
  • 震央

Japanese

Kanji

央

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. centre, middle

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

央 (ương, trân)

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