匡

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匡 U+5321, 匡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5321
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 匢 →

Translingual

Han character

匡 (Kangxi radical 22, 匚+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 尸一土 (SMG), four-corner 71711, composition ⿷匚王)

  1. correct, restore, revise

Derived characters

Additional Derived Characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 153, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2606
  • Dae Jaweon: page 345, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 83, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5321

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 匡
alternative forms 匩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匡
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (王) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
皇 *ɡʷaːŋ
惶 *ɡʷaːŋ
遑 *ɡʷaːŋ
堭 *ɡʷaːŋ
煌 *ɡʷaːŋ
餭 *ɡʷaːŋ
騜 *ɡʷaːŋ
艎 *ɡʷaːŋ
隍 *ɡʷaːŋ
湟 *ɡʷaːŋ
徨 *ɡʷaːŋ
篁 *ɡʷaːŋ
蝗 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
凰 *ɡʷaːŋ
偟 *ɡʷaːŋ
媓 *ɡʷaːŋ
韹 *ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
葟 *ɡʷaːŋ
皝 *ɡʷaːŋʔ
汪 *qʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋs, *qʷaŋʔ
尪 *qʷaːŋ
迋 *kʷaŋʔ, *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
逛 *kʷaŋʔ
誑 *kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
匡 *kʰʷaŋ
筐 *kʰʷaŋ
框 *kʰʷaŋ
眶 *kʰʷaŋ
誆 *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
邼 *kʰʷaŋ
恇 *kʰʷaŋ
劻 *kʰʷaŋ
洭 *kʰʷaŋ
軭 *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ
狂 *ɡʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
軖 *ɡʷaŋ
鵟 *ɡʷaŋ
俇 *ɡʷaŋʔ
王 *ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
蚟 *ɢʷaŋ
彺 *ɢʷaŋ
旺 *ɢʷaŋs
諻 *qʰʷraːŋ
喤 *qʰʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
瑝 *ɡʷraːŋ
鍠 *ɡʷraːŋ
揘 *ɡʷaŋ

Pictogram of a square-shaped bamboo basket (perhaps originally made to contain millet and rice); the inner component is 㞷, which today retains only the bottom component 王 as a phonetic element. The inner component The original form is 匩 and the original meaning is preserved in 筐.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 匡
Mandarin Beijing /kʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /kʰuaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /kʰuɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /kʰuaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /kʰuaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kʰuaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰuaŋ²¹/
Xining /kʰuɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kʰuɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /kʰuaŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /kʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡ɕʰiaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /kʰuã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /kʰuaŋ³¹/
Hefei /kʰuɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰuɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /kʰuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /kʰuɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /kʰuɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /kʰuɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰuɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰyɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /kʰo³¹/
/t͡ɕʰia³¹/
Tunxi /kʰau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kʰuan³³/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕʰian³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /kʰioŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kʰioŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔŋ⁵³/
Nanning /hɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /hɔŋ⁵³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kʰɔŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kʰuoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kʰiɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /kʰuaŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /xuaŋ²³/
Rime
Character 匡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去王切
Baxter khjwang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰʉɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰʷiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰiuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰuaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/kʰiuaŋ/
Wang
Li 		/kʰĭwaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰiwaŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 匡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		kuāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khjwang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*k-pʰaŋ/
English square basket

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 匡
Reading # 1/1
No. 12721
Phonetic
component 		王
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		匡
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰʷaŋ/
Notes 說文所從𡉚聲，
甲文爲從止王聲字

Definitions

匡

  1. (literary) upright
  2. to correct; to rectify
  3. (literary) to assist
  4. (literary) to save; to rescue
  5. to predict; to expect
  6. (obsolete) to lose
  7. (historical) name of an ancient book
  8. (historical) name of two ancient places in Henan
  9. Alternative name for 廬山／庐山 (Lúshān).
  10. (obsolete) shell of crabs
  11. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 恇 (kuāng)
  12. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 匡 – see 筐 (“bamboo basket or chest”).
(This character is the second-round simplified and variant form of 筐).
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 匡 – see 框 (“frame; framework; etc.”).
(This character is the second-round simplified and variant form of 框).
Notes:

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 匡 – see 眶 (“eye socket, cranial orbit; rim of the eye; skin around the eyes”).
(This character is the second-round simplified and variant form of 眶).
Notes:

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 匡 – see 誆 (“to deceive; to cheat; to defraud; to coax”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 誆).
Notes:

Etymology 6

For pronunciation and definitions of 匡 – see 哐 (“clash; bang”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 哐).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

匡

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: こう (kō)
  • Kan-on: きょう (kyō)
  • Kun: ただす (tadasu, 匡す)、すくう (sukuu, 匡う)

Korean

Hanja

匡 (eum 광 (gwang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

匡: Hán Nôm readings: khuôn, khuông

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