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港
港
See also: 巻
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 港 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 港 |
| Traditional | 港 |
Alternative forms
Note that, as in 巷, in Chinese, the bottom is 巳, while in Japanese, the bottom is 己.
Han character
港 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水廿金山 (ETCU), four-corner 34117)
References
- KangXi: page 635, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17783
- Dae Jaweon: page 1042, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1668, character 7
- Unihan data for U+6E2F
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
港 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 巷 (OC *ɡroːŋs).
Ideogrammic compound (會意) proposed as alternative: a harbor is a road by the water.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gong2
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kóng
- Min Dong (BUC): gē̤ng
- Min Nan (POJ): káng
- Wu (Wiktionary): kaan (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄤˇ
- Wade-Giles: kang3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaang
- IPA (key): /kɑŋ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gong2
- Yale: góng
- Cantonese Pinyin: gong2
- IPA (key): /kɔːŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kóng
- Hakka Romanization System: gong`
- Hagfa Pinyim: gong3
- IPA: /koŋ³¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gē̤ng
- IPA (key): /køyŋ³³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: káng
- Tâi-lô: káng
- Phofsit Daibuun: karng
- IPA (Xiamen): /kaŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kaŋ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kaŋ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: kaan (T2)
- IPA (key): /kɑ̃³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 港 | 港 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 江 (9) | 東 (1) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | II | I |
| Fanqie | 古項切 | 胡貢切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kˠʌŋX/ | /ɦuŋH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kᵚɔŋX/ | /ɦuŋH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kɔŋX/ | /ɣuŋH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kaɨwŋX/ | /ɦəwŋH/ |
| Li Rong |
/kɔŋX/ | /ɣuŋH/ |
| Wang Li |
/kɔŋX/ | /ɣuŋH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kɔŋX/ | /ɣuŋH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jiǎng | hòng |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 港 | 港 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 4150 | 4163 |
| Phonetic component |
共 | 共 |
| Rime group |
東 | 東 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
講 | 哄 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kroːŋʔ/ | /*ɡloːŋs/ |
| Notes | 見馬融賦 | |
Definitions
港
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
港
Readings
Compounds
Pronunciation
Noun
港 (hiragana みなと, romaji minato)
References
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
港 • (hang) (hangeul 항, McCune-Reischauer hang, Yale hang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
港 (cảng)
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