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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水廿田女 (ETWV), four-corner 35132, composition)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 654, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18442
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1064, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1756, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6FC3

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nuː
*rnuːŋ, *nuːŋ
*rnuːŋ, *noŋ
*rnuːŋʔ
*noːŋs
*noːŋs
*nuːŋ
*nuːŋ
*nuːŋ
*nuːŋ
*nuːŋ
*noŋ
*noŋ
*noŋ, *njoŋ
*noŋ, *njoŋ
*noŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *noŋ) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *nuːŋ) – heavy dew.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (12)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/nioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳuawŋ/
Li
Rong
/nioŋ/
Wang
Li
/nĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ni̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nóng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nóng
Middle
Chinese
‹ nrjowng ›
Old
Chinese
/*n<r>oŋ/
English thick (esp. as a liquid); strong (drink)

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. 9577
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*noŋ/

Definitions

  1. thick; concentrated
  2. (of colors) deep
  3. (of beverage) strong; concentrated

Synonyms

  • (color: deep): (shēn)

Compounds

  • 信濃川信浓川
  • 戰雲濃密战云浓密
  • 淡妝濃抹淡妆浓抹
  • 濃厚浓厚 (nónghòu)
  • 濃墨浓墨
  • 濃妝浓妆 (nóngzhuāng)
  • 濃妝淡抹浓妆淡抹
  • 濃妝豔抹浓妆艳抹 (nóngzhuāngyànmǒ)
  • 濃妝豔服浓妆艳服
  • 濃妝豔裹浓妆艳裹
  • 濃妝豔飾浓妆艳饰
  • 濃密浓密
  • 濃度浓度 (nóngdù)
  • 濃快浓快

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(nong)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: nong, McCune-Reischauer: nong, Yale: nong)
  • Name (hangeul): 짙을 농()
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Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(nùng, nống, nồng, nông)

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