擎

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擎 U+64CE, 擎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64CE
← 操
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 擏 →

Translingual

Han character

擎 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿大手 (TKQ), four-corner 48502, composition ⿱敬手)

  1. lift up, hold up, support

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 458, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12808
  • Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1952, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+64CE

Chinese

trad. 擎
simp. # 擎
alternative forms 擏
㢣
檠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蟼 *kraː, *kreŋ, *kreŋʔ
憼 *kaŋʔ, *kreŋʔ
驚 *kreŋ
警 *kreŋʔ
儆 *kreŋʔ, *ɡreŋs
璥 *keŋʔ
檠 *kreŋʔ, *ɡreŋ, *ɡreŋs
敬 *kreŋs
擎 *ɡreŋ
曔 *ɡreŋs

Pronunciation

Note:
  • khêng/gêng - literary;
  • kìn - colloquial.
Note:
  • kêng5 - literary;
  • kia5 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 擎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠京切
Baxter gjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/giajŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiɐŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/gi̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qíng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		king4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 擎
Reading # 1/1
No. 6886
Phonetic
component 		敬
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		擎
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡreŋ/
Notes 見莊子

Definitions

擎

  1. to prop up; to hold up; to lift up
    書擎辣手裡／书擎辣手里 [Shanghainese]  ―  1sy 6jin-laq 5seu-li [Wugniu]  ―  to hold a book up in one's hand.
  2. (Hakka) to raise one's hand or arm

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

擎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. lift up
  2. hold up
  3. support

Readings

Korean

Hanja

擎 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

  1. lift up
  2. to support
  3. to hold

Vietnamese

Han character

擎: Hán Nôm readings: kình

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