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腸

腸

See also: 肠 and 膓

Translingual

Han character

腸 (radical 130 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月日一竹 (BAMH), four-corner 76227, composition ⿰月昜)

References

  • KangXi: page 990, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29721
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1442, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2095, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8178

Chinese

trad. 腸
simp. 肠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
湯 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪 *l̥ʰaːŋ
薚 *l̥ʰaːŋ
簜 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒 *l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩 *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙 *l̥ʰaːŋs
啺 *l'aːŋ
碭 *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸 *l'aːŋʔ
愓 *l'aːŋʔ
璗 *l'aːŋʔ
崵 *l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿 *l'aːŋs
暢 *l̥ʰaŋs
畼 *l̥ʰaŋs
腸 *l'aŋ
場 *l'aŋ
傷 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤 *hljaŋ
觴 *hljaŋ
慯 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓 *hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲 *hljaŋ
陽 *laŋ
楊 *laŋ
揚 *laŋ
瘍 *laŋ
煬 *laŋ, *laŋs
鍚 *laŋ
暘 *laŋ
颺 *laŋ, *laŋs
昜 *laŋ
輰 *laŋ
敭 *laŋ
鰑 *laŋ
諹 *laŋ, *laŋs
瑒 *laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉 *laŋ
餳 *ljaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aŋ) : semantic 肉 ‎(“body”) + phonetic 昜 ‎(OC *laŋ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 腸
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰɑŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /tʃʰaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰɔ̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰɑ̃⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰaŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰaŋ³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰaŋ²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰã̠¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰɑ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suə¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zã²³/
Suzhou /zã¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zɑŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑi³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰia⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiau⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂan¹³/
Xiangtan /ɖ͡ʐɔn¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɔŋ²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰoŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /tʃʰoŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰœŋ²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɔŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰœŋ³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiɔŋ³⁵/
/tŋ̍³⁵/
/t͡sʰiaŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /touŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tiɔŋ²¹/
/t͡sɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡siaŋ⁵⁵/
/tɯŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /siaŋ³¹/
/ʔdo³¹/
Rime
Character 腸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ȡiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cháng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 腸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cháng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lraŋ/
English intestines

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 腸
Reading # 1/1
No. 14579
Phonetic
component		 昜
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 長
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aŋ/

Definitions

腸

  1. intestines
  2. emotions
  3. sausage

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

腸

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings
Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
腸
わた
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

腸 ‎(hiragana わた, romaji wata)

  1. (anatomy) the intestines
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
腸
はらわた
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
  • [parawata] → [ɸarawata] → [harawata]. Compound of 腹 ‎(hara, “stomach”) +‎ 腸 ‎(wata, “intestines”).

Pronunciation

Noun

腸 ‎(hiragana はらわた, romaji harawata)

  1. (anatomy) the large intestines
    • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki
      脯 趺武友 乾肉薄折之曰脯也 大小腸 波良汙多
    • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō:
      大腸 中黄子云 大腸 音長 波良和太 [...] 爲傳送之府 [...] 膽者中正之官 脾胃者倉稟之官 大腸者傳道之官 小腸者受盛之官 [...]
  2. (anatomy) intestines

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
腸
ちょう
Grade: 4
on'yomi

/tyau/ → /tyoː/.

Pronunciation

Noun

腸 ‎(hiragana ちょう, romaji chō, historical hiragana ちやう)

  1. (anatomy) the intestines; the bowels
    • 1993 December 15, Noriko Sasaki, 動どう物ぶつのお医い者しゃさん [The Veterinarian], volume 3 (fiction, in Japanese), 36th edition, Tokyo: Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-11084-6, page 23:
      年 (とし)頃 (ごろ)の女 (じょ)性 (せい)が自 (じ)分 (ぶん)の腸 (ちょう)なんか見 (み)ていていいのだろうか
      Toshigoro no josei ga jibun no chō nanka miteite ī no darōka
      Is it okay for a woman of marriage age to look at her own guts?

References

Korean

Hanja

腸 • ‎(jang) (hangeul 장, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腸 (tràng, trường, trướng)

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