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Translingual

Han character

(radical 53 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈中人 (ILO), four-corner 00237)

  1. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 344, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9278
  • Dae Jaweon: page 654, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 879, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5E9A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡl'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
*kraːŋ
*kraːŋ
*kraːŋ
*kʰlaːŋ
*kʰlaːŋ
*kʰlaːŋ
*kʰlaːŋ
*kʰlaːŋ
躿 *kʰlaːŋ
*kʰlaːŋʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a flail and a threshing device.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (109)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨjŋ/
Li
Rong
/kɐŋ/
Wang
Li
/kɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kæng ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˤraŋ/
English 7th heavenly stem

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. 3978
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kraːŋ/

Definitions

  1. age
  2. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems (天干 (tiāngān))
  3. A surname.

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gyeong) (hangeul , revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(canh)

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