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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月山 (HDBU), four-corner 88963, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 890, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26209
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1318, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2989, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7BB1

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*slaŋ, *slaŋs
*slaŋ
*slaŋ
*slaŋ
*slaŋ
*slaŋ
*slaŋʔ
*sraŋ
*sraŋ
*sraŋ
*sraŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *slaŋ) : semantic  (bamboo) + phonetic  (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs) – a bamboo box.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/siɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/siaŋ/
Wang
Li
/sĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.[s]aŋ/
English box (of a carriage)

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. 13583
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*slaŋ/

Definitions

  1. (large) box, chest, trunk

See also

  • (xiá), (): (small) box

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. box

Readings

Kanji in this term
はこ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana はこ, romaji hako)

  1. box

Derived terms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(sang) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tương, rương, sương)

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