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巷

巷

See also: 巻

Translingual

Shinjitai 巷
Simplified 巷
Traditional 巷

Alternative forms

Note that in Chinese, the bottom is 巳, while in Japanese, the bottom is 己.

Han character

巷 (radical 49 己+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿金口山 (TCRU), four-corner 44717, composition ⿱共巳)

  1. alley, lane

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 327, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8756
  • Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 986, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5DF7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 巷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 巷
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (共) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
港 *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
巷 *ɡroːŋs
衖 *ɡroːŋs
鬨 *ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
烘 *qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
洪 *ɡloːŋ
鉷 *ɡloːŋ
谼 *ɡloːŋ
葓 *ɡoːŋ
哄 *ɡloːŋs
蕻 *ɡloːŋs
恭 *kloŋ
供 *kloŋ, *kloŋs
龔 *kloŋ
珙 *kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
共 *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
髸 *kloŋ
拱 *kloŋʔ
拲 *kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
蛬 *kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
栱 *kloŋʔ
輁 *kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
舼 *ɡloŋ
輂 *kloɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 巷
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕiaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕiɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /ɕiaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕiaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /xaŋ²¹/ ～子
/xaŋ⁴⁴/ 地名
Xining /xɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /xɑŋ¹³/
/ɕiɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /xɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /xɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /xaŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /xaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /xaŋ²¹³/
/ɕiaŋ/ 新
Kunming /xã̠¹/
Nanjing /ɕiaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕiɑŋ³⁵/
/xuə³⁵/ 巷子
Hohhot /xɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /ɦɑ̃³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦiɑŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦuɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /xa²²/
Tunxi /xau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /xan⁵⁵/
/xan¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɦɔn²¹/
Gan Nanchang /hɔŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /hoŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /hoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔŋ²²/
Nanning /hɔŋ³⁵/
Hong Kong /hɔŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /haŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hɔyŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /haŋ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /haŋ³⁵/
/ho²³/
Rime
Character 巷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 江 (9)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 胡絳切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠʌŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦᵚɔŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɔŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaɨwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɔŋH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣɔŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣɔŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 巷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hæwngH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.[ɡ]ˤroŋ-s/
English lane, street

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 巷
Reading # 1/1
No. 4151
Phonetic
component		 共
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 巷
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡroːŋs/

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巷

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Japanese

Kanji

巷

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. street, lane; crossroads, fork in the road
  2. town, neighborhood; public

Readings

Korean

Hanja

巷 • ‎(hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune-Reischauer hang)

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Vietnamese

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