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響

響

See also: 响

Translingual

Shinjitai 響
Simplified 响
Traditional 響

Alternative forms

Note that Japanese shinjitai replaces 鄉 with 郷, dropping the top stroke on 良, and instead drawing 艮.

Han character

響 (radical 180 音+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 女中卜廿日 (VLYTA), four-corner 27601, composition ⿱鄉音)

References

  • KangXi: page 1398, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43318
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1914, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4498, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+97FF

Chinese

trad. 響
simp. 响
alt. forms 㗽
窨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 響
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (鄉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
曏 *qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
鄉 *qʰaŋ
薌 *qʰaŋ
膷 *qʰaŋ
響 *qʰaŋʔ
饗 *qʰaŋʔ
蠁 *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
嚮 *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
卿 *kʰraŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰaŋʔ) : phonetic 鄉 ‎(OC *qʰaŋ) + semantic 音 ‎(“sound”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 響
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨaŋX/
Li
Rong		 /xiaŋX/
Wang
Li		 /xĭaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯aŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 響
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiǎng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjangX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋʔ/
English echo

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 響
Reading # 1/1
No. 13599
Phonetic
component		 鄉
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 響
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋʔ/

Noun

響

  1. sound
  2. echo
  3. news, messages

Verb

響

  1. to make a noise
    電話響了。 / 电话响了。  ―  Diànhuà xiǎng le.  ―  The phone is ringing.
  2. (Cantonese) to be at a place
    你響邊？ / 你响边？ [Cantonese]  ―  Nei5hoeng2 bin1? [Jyutping]  ―  Where are you?
    我響你隔籬。 / 我响你隔篱。 [Cantonese]  ―  Ngo5hoeng2 nei5 gaak3 lei4. [Jyutping]  ―  I am next to you.
    我響處。 / 我响处。 [Cantonese]  ―  Ngo5hoeng2 syu3. [Jyutping]  ―  I am here.

Synonyms

  • (to be at):
Dialectal synonyms of 在 (“at, in”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 於
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 在
Mandarin Beijing 在、挨、跟
Taiwan 在
Jinan 在、從
Xi'an 在
Wuhan 在
Chengdu 在
Yangzhou 在
Hefei 在
Cantonese Guangzhou 喺、響
Hong Kong 喺、響
Taishan 到、響
Yangjiang 在
Gan Nanchang 在
Hakka Meixian 喺
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 在
Liudui (S. Sixian) 在
Hsinchu (Hailu) 在
Dongshi (Dabu) 在
Zhuolan (Raoping) 在
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 在
Jin Taiyuan 在
Min Bei Jian'ou 到
Min Dong Fuzhou 著、在、洽
Min Nan Quanzhou 佇
Xiamen 佇、踮
Zhangzhou 佇
Taipei 佇、踮 mT
Kaohsiung 佇
Tainan 佇
Taichung 佇
Yilan 佇
Lukang 佇
Sanxia 佇
Kinmen 佇
Magong 佇
Hsinchu 佇
Malaysia 佇
Chaozhou 在
Shantou 在
Wu Shanghai 辣、辣辣、辣海
Suzhou 勒
Wenzhou 是
Xiang Changsha 在
Shuangfeng 在
Note mT - mainstream Taiwanese (no particular region identified)

Adjective

響

  1. able to make a noise
    響板 / 响板  ―  xiǎngbǎn  ―  castanets
  2. (of sounds) loud and clear, resonant
    響亮 / 响亮  ―  xiǎngliàng  ―  loud and clear
  3. famous, reputed
  4. having a great impact

Classifier

響

  1. classifier for sounds

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

響

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. echo, resonance, reverberate
  2. sound

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

響 • ‎(hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang, Yale hyang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

響 (hướng, hưởng, tuyên)

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