庚

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庚 U+5E9A, 庚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E9A
← 庙
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 庛 →

Translingual

Han character

庚 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈中人 (ILO), four-corner 00237, composition ⿸广⿻コ大)

Derived characters

See also

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 344, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9278
  • Dae Jaweon: page 654, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 879, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5E9A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 庚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 庚
Shang Western Zhou
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions
Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唐 *ɡl'aːŋ
煻 *l'aːŋ
糖 *l'aːŋ
搪 *l'aːŋ
蓎 *l'aːŋ
瑭 *l'aːŋ
餹 *l'aːŋ
篖 *l'aːŋ
螗 *l'aːŋ
塘 *l'aːŋ
鶶 *l'aːŋ
赯 *l'aːŋ
磄 *l'aːŋ
溏 *l'aːŋ
傏 *l'aːŋ
鎕 *l'aːŋ
榶 *l'aːŋ
嵣 *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚 *kraːŋ
賡 *kraːŋ
鹒 *kraːŋ
康 *kʰlaːŋ
穅 *kʰlaːŋ
糠 *kʰlaːŋ
槺 *kʰlaːŋ
漮 *kʰlaːŋ
躿 *kʰlaːŋ
慷 *kʰlaːŋʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a flail and a threshing device.

Pronunciation

Note: keⁿ, kiⁿ - vernacular, keng - literary.
Rime
Character 庚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 庚 (109)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古行切
Baxter kaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kaɨjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/kɐŋ/
Wang
Li 		/kɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gēng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gang1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 庚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gēng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kæng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁraŋ/
English 7th heavenly stem

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 庚
Reading # 1/1
No. 3978
Phonetic
component 		庚
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		庚
Old
Chinese 		/*kraːŋ/

Definitions

庚

  1. age
  2. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems
  3. a surname

Coordinate terms

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Zhuang: geng

References

Japanese

Kanji

庚

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
庚
こう
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi
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From Middle Chinese 庚 (kæng).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

庚(こう) • (Kō) 

  1. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems
    Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)
    Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
庚
かのえ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

金 (Ka, “Metal”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

庚(かのえ) • (Kanoe) 

  1. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems
    Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)
    Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Korean

Hanja

庚 (eumhun 별 경 (byeol gyeong))

  1. Hanja form? of 경 (“star”).

Vietnamese

Han character

庚: Hán Nôm readings: canh

  1. chữ Hán form of Canh (“seventh of the ten heavenly stems”).
    Hypernyms: 天干, 十干
    Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Compounds

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