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康
康
See also: 隶
Translingual
Han character
康 (radical 53 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈中水 (ILE), four-corner 00232, composition ⿸广隶)
See also
References
- KangXi: page 347, character 27
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9376
- Dae Jaweon: page 658, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 891, character 1
- Unihan data for U+5EB7
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
康 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 唐 | *ɡl'aːŋ |
| 煻 | *l'aːŋ |
| 糖 | *l'aːŋ |
| 搪 | *l'aːŋ |
| 蓎 | *l'aːŋ |
| 瑭 | *l'aːŋ |
| 餹 | *l'aːŋ |
| 篖 | *l'aːŋ |
| 螗 | *l'aːŋ |
| 塘 | *l'aːŋ |
| 鶶 | *l'aːŋ |
| 赯 | *l'aːŋ |
| 磄 | *l'aːŋ |
| 溏 | *l'aːŋ |
| 傏 | *l'aːŋ |
| 鎕 | *l'aːŋ |
| 榶 | *l'aːŋ |
| 嵣 | *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs |
| 庚 | *kraːŋ |
| 賡 | *kraːŋ |
| 鹒 | *kraːŋ |
| 康 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 穅 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 糠 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 槺 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 漮 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 躿 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 慷 | *kʰlaːŋʔ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 庚 (“threshing tools”) + 米 (“rice”), chaff.
The derivative 糠 refers to the original word.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄎㄤ
- Wade-Giles: k'ang1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kang
- IPA (key): /kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hong1
- Yale: hōng
- Cantonese Pinyin: hong1
- IPA (key): /hɔːŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khng / khong
- Tâi-lô: khng / khong
- Phofsit Daibuun: qngf, qofng
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰŋ̍³³/, /kʰɔŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
- Note: khng - vernacular, khong - literary.
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 康 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 唐 (101) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 苦岡切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kʰɑŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kʰɑŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kʰɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kʰaŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/kʰɑŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/kʰɑŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kʰɑŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
kāng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 康 | 康 | 康 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
kāng | kāng | tāng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ khang › | ‹ khang › | ‹ thang › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[kʰ]ˤaŋ/ | /*k-r̥ˤaŋ/ | /*r̥ˤaŋ/ |
| English | empty | tranquil; at ease | name of first Shang ruler |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 康 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3981 |
| Phonetic component |
庚 |
| Rime group |
陽 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
康 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʰlaːŋ/ |
Definitions
康
Compounds
Derived terms from 康
See also
- 安多 (Ānduō)
References
- “Query for 康”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Korean
Hanja
康 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang, Yale kang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
康 (khang, khăng, khương)
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