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Translingual

Han character

(radical 137 +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜卜竹弓 (HYYHN), four-corner 20417, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1009, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30385
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1467, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3058, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+822A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs
*kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs
*kaːŋ
*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
*kʰaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
*kʰaːŋʔ, *qʰaːŋ
*kʰaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *qaːŋ
*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
*kʰaːŋs, *qʰaːŋ
*kʰaːŋs
*kʰaːŋs
*kʰaːŋs
*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
*kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
*kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
*ɡaːŋ
*ɡaːŋ
*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
*ɡaːŋ
*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋs
*kraːŋ
*kʰraːŋ
*kʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaːŋ) : semantic  (boat) + phonetic  (OC *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦaŋ/
Li
Rong
/ɣɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/ɣɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
háng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 7378
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaːŋ/

Definitions

  1. ship; boat
  2. to sail; to navigate; (of airplane) to fly

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

(hiragana わたる, romaji Wataru)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(hang) (hangeul , revised hang, McCune-Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hàng)

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