扃

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扃 U+6243, 扃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6243
← 扂
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 扄 →

Translingual

Han character

扃 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸月口 (HSBR) or 戈尸月口 (ISBR), four-corner 37227, composition ⿸戶冋 or ⿸户冋)

  1. a door bar placed outside a door

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 416, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11728
  • Dae Jaweon: page 761, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2262, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6243

Chinese

trad. 扃
simp. # 扃
alternative forms 𢇺
𨴀
扄
銄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 扃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 扃
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 扃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiōng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kweng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷˁeŋ/
English door bolt

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 扃
Reading # 1/1
No. 6900
Phonetic
component 		冋
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		扃
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷeːŋ/

Definitions

扃

  1. doorlatch
  2. clasp; latch; bolt; fastener (on some item)
  3. doorleaf
  4. to close; to shut; to bolt (a door)
  5. (Chinese mythology) Jiong of Xia (twelfth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

扃

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. door bar placed outside a door

Readings

  • On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)、へん (hen)
  • Kun: かんぬき (kannuki)、とびら (tobira)

Korean

Hanja

扃 (eum 경 (gyeong))

  1. bolt for fastening a door from outside

Vietnamese

Han character

扃: Hán Nôm readings: quynh

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References

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