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翁

翁

Translingual

Han character

翁 (radical 124 羽+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 金戈尸一 (CISM), four-corner 80127, composition ⿱公羽)

  1. old man
  2. father, father-in-law

References

  • KangXi: page 955, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28635
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1401, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3343, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7FC1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 翁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (公) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
慃 *qroːŋʔ
袞 *kluːnʔ
衮 *kluːnʔ
蔉 *kluːnʔ
滚 *kluːnʔ
忩 *sʰloːŋ
鬆 *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ
凇 *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
公 *kloːŋ
蚣 *kloːŋ, *kljoŋ
翁 *qloːŋ
螉 *qloːŋ
蓊 *qloːŋ, *qloːŋʔ
嗡 *qloːŋ
滃 *qloːŋʔ
暡 *qloːŋʔ
勜 *qloːŋʔ
塕 *qloːŋʔ
瓮 *qloːŋs
崧 *sqʰluŋ
菘 *sqʰluŋ
硹 *sqʰluŋ
淞 *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
蜙 *sqʰloŋ
倯 *sqʰloŋ
松 *sɢloŋ
訟 *sɢloŋ, *sɢloŋs
頌 *sɢloŋs, *loŋ
忪 *kljoŋ
彸 *kljoŋ
衳 *kljoŋ
伀 *kljoŋ
妐 *kljoŋ
炂 *kljoŋ
鈆 *kljoŋ, *lon

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 翁
Mandarin Beijing /uəŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /uəŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /vəŋ²¹/
Jinan /vəŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /ɣəŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /uəŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /uŋ²¹/
Xining /uə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /vəŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /və̃n³¹/
/kũn³¹/
Ürümqi /vɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /oŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /oŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /oŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /oŋ/
Nanjing /oŋ³¹/
Hefei /əŋ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /vəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /uŋ¹³/
Hohhot /və̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /oŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /oŋ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔoŋ³³/
Wenzhou /oŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /uʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /an¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ŋoŋ³³/
Xiangtan /uən³³/
Gan Nanchang /uŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /vuŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /vuŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /joŋ⁵⁵/
Nanning /juŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /juŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ɔŋ⁵⁵/
/aŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /oŋ³³/
/eŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /oŋ²³/
/aŋ²³/
Rime
Character 翁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔəwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʔuŋ/
Wang
Li		 /uŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 翁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wēng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔuwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qˤoŋ/
English old man (Han?)

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 翁
Reading # 1/1
No. 4094
Phonetic
component		 公
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 翁
Old
Chinese		 /*qloːŋ/

Definitions

翁

  1. A surname​.
  2. (Min Nan) husband
    翁仔某 [Min Nan]  ―  ang-á-bó͘ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  husband and wife
  3. elderly man
  4. † the feathers of a bird's neck

Japanese

Kanji

翁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

翁 • ‎(ong) (hangeul 옹, revised ong, McCune-Reischauer ong, Yale ong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

翁 (ông)

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