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Translingual
Han character
濃 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水廿田女 (ETWV), four-corner 35132, composition ⿰氵農)
Descendants
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 654, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18442
- Dae Jaweon: page 1064, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1756, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6FC3
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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嶩
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*nuː
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噥
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*rnuːŋ, *nuːŋ
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鬞
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*rnuːŋ, *noŋ
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擃
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*rnuːŋʔ
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齈
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*noːŋs
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癑
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*noːŋs
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農
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*nuːŋ
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辳
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*nuːŋ
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憹
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*nuːŋ
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膿
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*nuːŋ
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儂
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*nuːŋ
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濃
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*noŋ
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醲
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*noŋ
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襛
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*noŋ, *njoŋ
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穠
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*noŋ, *njoŋ
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檂
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*noŋ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *noŋ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 農 (OC *nuːŋ).
Etymology
Wikipedia has articles on:
- 濃 (Written Standard Chinese?)
- 濃 (Cantonese)
- 濃 (Wu)
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːŋ (“heavy; thick, viscous”).
Pronunciation
Note:
- Meixian:
- nung2 - literary;
- ngiung2 - vernacular.
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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濃
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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nóng
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Middle Chinese
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‹ nrjowng ›
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Old Chinese
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/*n<r>oŋ/
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English
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thick (esp. as a liquid); strong (drink)
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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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濃
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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9577
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Phonetic component
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農
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Rime group
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東
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Rime subdivision
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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醲
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Old Chinese
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/*noŋ/
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Definitions
濃
- thick; concentrated
- (of colors) deep
- Synonym: 深 (shēn)
- Antonyms: 淺/浅, 淡
- (of beverage) strong; concentrated
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
釅 (“(of a liquid) concentrated; (of a beverage) strong”)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
濃
(Jōyō kanji)
- dark
- thick
Readings
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Affix
濃 • (nō)
- dark color
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Prefix
濃 • (ko-)
- dark color
Korean
Hanja
濃 (eumhun 짙을 농 (jiteul nong))
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Compounds
Vietnamese
Han character
濃: Hán Nôm readings: nùng, nống, nồng, nông
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