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Translingual
Han character
枉 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木一土 (DMG), four-corner 41914, composition ⿰木王)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 514, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14530
- Dae Jaweon: page 902, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1163, character 7
- Unihan data for U+6789
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 暀
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*ɢʷaŋs, *ɢʷaŋʔ, *ɢʷaŋs
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| 誑
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*kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
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| 枉
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*qʷaŋʔ
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| 往
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*ɢʷaŋ
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Etymology
Related to 紆 (OC) ~ 迂 (OC *qʷa), 匡 (OC *kʰʷaŋ), 腕 (OC *qoːns), 冤 (OC *qon) (Schuessler, 2007). See 迂 (yū) for further etymology.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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枉
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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wǎng
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ ʔjwangX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*qʷaŋʔ/
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| English
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crooked; depraved
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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枉
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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12759
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Phonetic
component
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往
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Rime
group
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陽
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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枉
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Old
Chinese
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/*qʷaŋʔ/
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Definitions
枉
- bent; crooked
- depraved; indecent; perverse
- to distort; to twist; to bend
- unjust; wrong
- injustice
- (literary) to condescend; to deign
- in vain; to no avail; for naught
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, triad slang) three
- alt. forms: 汪
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
枉
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
枉 • (wang) (hangeul 왕, revised wang, McCune–Reischauer wang, Yale wang)
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Tày
Han character
枉 (transliteration needed)
- Nôm form of vường.
References
- Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
Vietnamese
Han character
枉: Hán Nôm readings: uổng
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