型

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型 U+578B, 型
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-578B
← 垊
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 垌 →

型 U+2F855, 型
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F855
← 堍
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 堲 →

Translingual

Han character

型 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一弓土 (MNG), four-corner 12104, composition ⿱刑土)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 227, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5030
  • Dae Jaweon: page 463, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 436, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+578B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 型
alternative forms 坓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 型
Warring States
Chu slip and silk script
Characters in the same phonetic series (井) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
硎 *kʰreːŋ, *ɡeːŋ
耕 *kreːŋ
荊 *keŋ
井 *skeŋʔ
丼 *kl'oːmʔ, *skeŋʔ
妌 *sɡeŋʔ
穽 *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
阱 *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
汫 *sɡeːŋʔ
刑 *ɡeːŋ
形 *ɡeːŋ
邢 *ɡeːŋ
鉶 *ɡeːŋ
型 *ɡeːŋ
侀 *ɡeːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡeːŋ) : phonetic 刑 (OC *ɡeːŋ) + semantic 土 (“earth”) – an earthen mold, hence form, pattern.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 型
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 戸經切
Baxter heng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦeŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɣeŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɣieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xíng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jing4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 型
Reading # 1/1
No. 6865
Phonetic
component 		井
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		㓝
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡeːŋ/
Notes 井轉註字

Definitions

型

  1. ⁜ mold
  2. model; type; style; pattern
    血型  ―  xuèxíng  ―  blood type
    表現型／表现型  ―  biǎoxiànxíng  ―  phenotype
    基因型  ―  jīyīnxíng  ―  genotype
  3. (Cantonese) stylish; cool

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

型

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. mold, pattern
  2. type, model, style

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
型
かた
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Noun senses are attested from the 8th century, with suffix use later. See 形(かた) (kata). Compare also 姿(すがた) (sugata, “appearance, likeness”), 模(かたぎ) (katagi, “model, pattern, template”).

Noun

型(かた) • (kata) 

  1. a style, a type
  2. a mold, a pattern, a template
  3. (martial arts) kata (choreographed training exercises)
  4. (noh, kabuki) a particular style of stage movement or choreography
  5. a convention, a standardized form or style
  6. screen size (of a television, computer monitor, etc.) in inches
    32型(かた)テレビ ― sanjū-ni kata terebi ― a 32-inch television

Suffix

型(がた) • (-gata) 

  1. type
    血液(けつえき)型(がた) ― ketsueki-gata ― blood type
  2. shape, pattern, likeness
    Synonym: 形 (-gata)
    ハート型(がた) ― hāto-gata ― heart-shaped

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

型 (eum 형 (hyeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

型: Hán Việt readings: hình
型: Nôm readings: hình

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References

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