慷

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慷 U+6177, 慷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6177
← 慶
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 慸 →

Translingual

Han character

慷 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心戈中水 (PILE), four-corner 90032, composition ⿰忄康)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 400, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11146
  • Dae Jaweon: page 740, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2347, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+6177

Chinese

trad. 慷
simp. # 慷
2nd round simp. 忼
alternative forms 忼 ancient

Glyph origin

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

Originally written as 忼. Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰlaːŋʔ) : semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 康 (OC *kʰlaːŋ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 慷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦朗切
Baxter khangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰɑŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰɑŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰaŋX/
Li
Rong 		/kʰɑŋX/
Wang
Li 		/kʰɑŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰɑŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kǎng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hong2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 慷
Reading # 1/1
No. 3987
Phonetic
component 		庚
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		慷
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰlaːŋʔ/

Definitions

慷

  1. Used in compounds.

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

慷

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. generous; magnanimous

Readings

  • Go-on: こう (kō)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō)
  • Kun: いきどおる (ikidōru)

Korean

Hanja

慷 (eum 강 (gang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

慷: Hán Nôm readings: khảng

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