坰

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坰 U+5770, 坰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5770
← 坯
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 坱 →

Translingual

Han character

坰 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土月口 (GBR), four-corner 47120, composition ⿰土冋)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 226, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4985
  • Dae Jaweon: page 462, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 432, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5770

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 坰
alternative forms 冂
冋 ancient
埛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 坰
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (冋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
苘 *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
詗 *qʰʷeŋs, *qʰʷeːŋʔ
駉 *kʷeːŋ
坰 *kʷeːŋ
冋 *kʷeːŋ, *ɡʷeːŋʔ
絅 *kʷeːŋ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
扃 *kʷeːŋ
炯 *kʷeːŋʔ, *ɡʷeːŋʔ
迥 *ɡʷeːŋʔ
泂 *ɡʷeːŋʔ

Character composed by the radical of the earth (土) and 冋 as a phonetical component; the latter component also points to the concept of "territory, area".

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 坰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 青 (126)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古螢切
Baxter kweng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kweŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kuɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/kueŋ/
Wang
Li 		/kiweŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kiweŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gwing1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 坰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiōng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kweng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷˁeŋ/
English region distant from capital

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 坰
Reading # 1/1
No. 6897
Phonetic
component 		冋
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		扃
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷeːŋ/

Definitions

坰

  1. Alternative form of 冂 (jiōng, “city outskirts”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

坰

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. wilds

Readings

  • On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)

Korean

Hanja

坰 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng)

  1. field
  2. borderland, vicinity

Vietnamese

Han character

坰: Hán Nôm readings: quynh

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References

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