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Translingual

Han character

(radical 86 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水竹火 (EHF), four-corner 36809)

References

  • KangXi: page 684, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19435
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1096, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2238, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+71D9

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
*l̥ʰaːŋ
*l̥ʰaːŋ
*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
*l̥ʰaːŋʔ
*l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
*l̥ʰaːŋs
*l'aːŋ
*l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
*l'aːŋʔ
*l'aːŋʔ
*l'aːŋʔ
*l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
*l'aːŋs
*l̥ʰaŋs
*l̥ʰaŋs
*l'
*l'
*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
*hljaŋ
*hljaŋ
*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
*hljaŋ, *laŋ
*hljaŋ
*laŋ
*laŋ
*laŋ
*laŋ
*laŋ, *laŋs
*laŋ
*laŋ
*laŋ, *laŋs
*laŋ
*laŋ
*laŋ
*laŋ
*laŋ, *laŋs
*laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
*laŋ
*ljaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰaːŋs) : phonetic  (OC *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ) + semantic .

Etymology

From (OC *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ, “hot water”).

Pronunciation



Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14563
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰaːŋs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. hot (because of high temperature)
  2. to warm; to heat something up (using hot water or fire)
  3. to burn; to injure (with high temperature)
  4. (cooking) to blanch
  5. (chiefly Cantonese) to iron
    恤衫 / 恤衫 [Cantonese]   tong3 seot1 saam1 [Jyutping]   to iron a shirt

Compounds

  • 光燙光烫
  • 冷燙冷烫
  • 洗燙洗烫
  • 滾燙滚烫 (gǔntàng)
  • 火燙火烫
  • 燙傷烫伤
  • 燙金烫金
  • 燙馬烫马
  • 燙髮烫发 (tàngfà)
  • 燙麵烫面
  • 發燙发烫
  • 電燙电烫

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(tang) (hangeul , revised tang, McCune-Reischauer t'ang, Yale thang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(năng, nãng, nắng)

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