囊

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囊 U+56CA, 囊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56CA
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 囋 →

Translingual

Han character

囊 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+19, 22 strokes, cangjie input 十月口口女 (JBRRV), four-corner 00732, composition ⿳⿳𰀉冖吅𠀎𧘇)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 215, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4633
  • Dae Jaweon: page 438, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 707, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+56CA

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 囊
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (襄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
囊 *naːŋ
蠰 *naːŋ, *sraŋ, *hnjaŋs, *njaŋʔ
曩 *naːŋʔ
灢 *naːŋʔ, *naːŋs
儾 *naːŋs
孃 *naŋ, *njaŋ
瓤 *naŋ, *njaŋ
鑲 *naŋ, *njaŋ
釀 *naŋs
瓖 *snaŋ, *snaŋ
驤 *snaŋ
襄 *snaŋ
纕 *snaŋ
忀 *snaŋ
欀 *snaŋ, *njaŋs
饟 *hnjaŋ, *hnjaŋʔ, *hnjaŋs
攘 *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, *njaŋs
禳 *njaŋ
穰 *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ
躟 *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ
瀼 *njaŋ
獽 *njaŋ
儴 *njaŋ
蘘 *njaŋ
鬤 *njaŋ, *rnaːŋ
勷 *njaŋ
壤 *njaŋʔ
嚷 *njaŋʔ
讓 *njaŋs
懹 *njaŋs
攮 *rnoːŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) – a tied bag (𣒚), with various items in it (𤕦). 𤕦 also serves as a phonetic element. There are many alternative forms. In the modern, standard form, the bottom turned into an abbreviated form of 襄, with the result that the character is a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *naːŋ) : abbreviated semantic 㯻 (“bag”) + abbreviated phonetic 襄 (OC *snaŋ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 囊
2nd round simp. 𰀉
alternative forms
𬺿
嚢
𡄜
𢑿
𣡦
𬺿
嚢
𡄜
𢑿
𣡦
𣡪
𧛦
𣡏
 

Possibly Sino-Tibetan; compare Burmese နွှင် (hnwang, “to skin; to peel off”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Note: nāng - only in Mainland, used in certain compounds (囊膪, 囊揣).
Note:
  • Xiamen:
    • lông - all senses;
    • long - verb.
  • Zhangzhou, Taiwan:
    • lông - noun;
    • long - verb.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 囊
Mandarin Beijing /naŋ³⁵/
Harbin /naŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /nɑŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /naŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /naŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /naŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /naŋ²¹/
Xining /nɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /nɑŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /lɑ̃⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /naŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /naŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /naŋ³¹/
Guiyang /naŋ²¹/
Kunming /nã̠³¹/
Nanjing /laŋ²⁴/
Hefei /lɑ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /nɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /nɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /nɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /nɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /nɑ̃¹³/
Hangzhou /nɑŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /nuɔ³¹/
Hui Shexian /la⁴⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /lan¹³/
Xiangtan /nɔn¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /noŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /noŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /nɔŋ²¹/
Nanning /nɔŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /nɔŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /lɔŋ³⁵/
/nŋ̍³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /nouŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /nɔŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /laŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ʔdɔŋ³¹/
/lɔŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 囊
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 奴當切
Baxter nang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/nɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/nɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/nɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/naŋ/
Li
Rong 		/nɑŋ/
Wang
Li 		/nɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/nɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		náng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nong4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 囊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		náng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nˁaŋ/
English sack, bag

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 囊
Reading # 1/1
No. 13608
Phonetic
component 		襄
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		囊
Old
Chinese 		/*naːŋ/

Definitions

囊

  1. bag; sack; pouch; pocket
  2. to bag; to put into a bag
  3. to cover
  4. (Hokkien) to wear; to put on
  5. (Xiamen and Taiwanese Hokkien) to put into
  6. (Quanzhou Hokkien) to fool; to trick; to trap
  7. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
 囊
alternative forms 廊

Pronunciation

Definitions

囊 (Cantonese)

  1. interior; contents
  2. (of a structure) shell; skeleton
  3. framework; outline; gist
  4. (figuratively, of a person) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

嚢

Kyūjitai

囊

Kanji

囊

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 嚢)

  1. bag
  2. purse
  3. sack
  4. put in bag

Readings

  • Go-on: のう (nō)←なう (nau, historical)
  • Kan-on: どう (dō)←だう (dau, historical)
  • Kun: ふくろ (fukuro, 囊)

Compounds

Definitions

Kanji in this term
囊
ふくろ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 囊 – see the following entries.
【嚢】H
hyōgai kanji
Extended shinjitai form of 囊
Kanji reading:
のう, どう, ふくろ
【袋】S
jōyō kanji
Kanji reading:
だい, たい, ふくろ
(This term, 囊, is the kyūjitai of the above terms.)
【袋ふくろ】S
a bag; a sack; a pouch
a segment in a fruit such as an orange
an organ whose form is like that of a bag
Alternative spelling
嚢
(This term, 囊, is the kyūjitai of an alternative spelling (嚢) of the above term.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 囊 (MC nang).

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

囊 (eumhun 주머니 낭 (jumeoni nang))

  1. pocket
  2. bag

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
  • Zonmal.com Hanja Dictionary (존말닷컴 한자사전／漢字辭典) (2002-2005).

Vietnamese

Han character

囊: Hán Nôm readings: nang, nẵng

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

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