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膿

See also: 脓

Translingual

Han character

膿 (radical 130 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月廿田女 (BTWV), four-corner 7523₂, composition ⿰⺼農)

References

KangXi: page 996, character 4

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29938

Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 4

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2116, character 7

Unihan data for U+81BF

Chinese

trad.		膿
simp.		脓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (農) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
嶩	*nuː
噥	rnuːŋ, nuːŋ
鬞	rnuːŋ, noŋ
擃	*rnuːŋʔ
齈	*noːŋs
癑	*noːŋs
農	*nuːŋ
辳	*nuːŋ
憹	*nuːŋ
膿	*nuːŋ
儂	*nuːŋ
濃	*noŋ
醲	*noŋ
襛	noŋ, njoŋ
穠	noŋ, njoŋ
檂	*noŋ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): nóng (nong²)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄨㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): nung⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): nùng
Min Nan (POJ): lâng / lông

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: nóng
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄥˊ
  - Wade-Giles: nung²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nong
  - IPA ^(key): /nʊŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: nung⁴
  - Yale: nùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: nung⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /nʊŋ²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: nùng
  - Hakka Romanization System: nungˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: nung²
  - IPA: /nuŋ¹¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâng / lông
  - Tâi-lô: lâng / lông
  - Phofsit Daibuun: laang, loong
  - IPA (Xiamen): /laŋ²⁴/, /lɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /laŋ²⁴/, /lɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /laŋ¹³/, /lɔŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /laŋ²⁴/, /lɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /laŋ²³/, /lɔŋ²³/

Middle Chinese: /nuoŋ/▼

Rime
Character	膿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	冬 (5)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	奴冬切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nuoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/nuoŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/noŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nawŋ/
Li Rong	/noŋ/
Wang Li	/nuoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/nuoŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nóng

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*C.nˤuŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*nuːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	膿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nóng
Middle Chinese	‹ nowng ›
Old Chinese	/*C.nˤuŋ/
English	pus
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	膿
Reading #	1/1
No.	9575
Phonetic component	農
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	農
Old Chinese	/*nuːŋ/

Definitions

膿

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Compounds

信口捏膿／信口捏脓
化膿／化脓 (huànóng)
捏膿／捏脓
灌膿／灌脓
煨膿／煨脓
膿包／脓包

膿包貨／脓包货
膿團／脓团
膿毒病／脓毒病
膿疱病／脓疱病
膿痂疹／脓痂疹
膿胸／脓胸

膿腫／脓肿 (nóngzhǒng)
膿血／脓血
膿血債／脓血债
貢膿／贡脓
軟膿包／软脓包

Japanese

Kanji

膿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: どう (dō), のう (nō)

Kun: うみ (umi)

Noun

膿 ‎(hiragana うみ, romaji umi)

Korean

Hanja

膿 • ‎(nong) (hangeul 농, revised nong, McCune-Reischauer nong, Yale nong)

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