盍

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See also: 盇
盍 U+76CD, 盍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76CD
← 盌
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 盎 →

Translingual

Han character

盍 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土戈月廿 (GIBT), four-corner 40107, composition ⿱去皿)

  1. what? why not?

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 794, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22980
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1209, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2559, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+76CD

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 盍
alternative forms 盇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盍
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (盍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蓋 *kaːbs, *kaːb, *ɡaːb
盖 *kaːbs
溘 *kʰaːbs, *kʰoːb, *kʰaːb
搕 *qoːb
嗑 *kaːb, *ɡaːb
榼 *kʰaːb
磕 *kʰaːb, *kʰaːd
瞌 *kʰaːb
盍 *ɡaːb
闔 *ɡaːb
篕 *ɡaːb
熆 *ɡaːb
鰪 *qaːb
廅 *qaːb
圔 *qroːb
饁 *ɢrab

Original form of 蓋. Pictogram (象形) , a container and its lid.

Etymology

From the fusion of 何不 (OC *ɡaːl pɯ, “why not”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 盍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 盍 (144)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡臘切
Baxter hap
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦɑp̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦɑp̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣɑp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦap̚/
Li
Rong 		/ɣɑp̚/
Wang
Li 		/ɣɑp̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɣɑp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		hé
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hap6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 盍
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		hé
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hap ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-ˁap/
English thatch, cover (v.)

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 盍
Reading # 1/1
No. 5080
Phonetic
component 		盍
Rime
group 		盍
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		盍
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡaːb/

Definitions

盍

  1. (Classical) why; how
  2. (Classical) why not
  3. Used in 盍簪.
  4. Used in 盍旦.
  5. Original form of 蓋／盖 (gài, “to cover”).
  6. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

盍

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. come together
  2. congregate
  3. meet
  4. cover

Readings

References

  1. ^ “盍”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

盍 • (hap) (hangeul 합)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盍: Hán Nôm readings: hạp, khạp

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