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U+58D9, 壙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58D9

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 32, +15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 土戈廿金 (GITC), four-corner 40186, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 241, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5576
  • Dae Jaweon: page 481, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 497, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+58D9

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰʷaːŋs) : semantic (earth; dirt) + phonetic (OC *kʷaːŋʔ)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (102)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter khwangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰwɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwaŋH/
Li
Rong
/kʰuɑŋH/
Wang
Li
/kʰuɑŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kʰwɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fong3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuàng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwangH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷʰˁaŋ-s/
English grave pit

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5376
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷaːŋs/

Definitions

  1. (literary) tomb; grave
  2. (literary) open wilderness; prairie
  3. (literary) Alternative form of  / (kuàng, vast; expansive)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: こう ()くわう (kwau, historical)
  • Kan-on: こう ()くわう (kwau, historical)
  • Kun: あな (ana, )

Korean

Hanja

(gwang) (hangeul , revised gwang, McCune–Reischauer kwang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khoảng

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