経

Simplified from 經 (巠 → 圣). Also a Japanese shinjitai. Current form 糸 + 圣, but not etymologically related to 圣.

経 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火水土 (VFEG), composition ⿰糹圣)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 921, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27392
• Dae Jaweon: page 1354, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 5, page 3388, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7D4C

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 經)

1. warp (thread running lengthwise)
2. longitude
3. meridian (in traditional Chinese medicine)
4. elapse, pass through
5. manage
6. hang (by the neck)
7. ordinary, usual
8. scripture, sutra
9. menstruation

• Go-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
• Tō-on: きん (kin)
• Kun: へる (heru, 経る, Jōyō)、たつ (tatsu, 経つ)、たて (tate, 経)、たていと (tateito, 経)、はかる (hakaru, 経る)
• Nanori: おさむ (osamu)、つね (tsune)、のぶ (nobu)、のり (nori)

/kʲeu/ → /kjau/ → /kjɔː/ → /kjoː/

From Middle Chinese 經 (MC keng|kengH). The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

The Buddhist senses are a translation of Sanskrit सूत्र (sūtra, literally “string, thread”)^[1][2] or Pali sutta (literally “string, thread”).

• (Tokyo) きょー (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

経(きょう) • (kyō) ^{←きやう (kyau)?}

1. (Buddhism) a sutra (Buddhist scripture):
   1. a discourse of the Gautama Buddha, one of the Twelve Divisions of Mahayana Buddhism

      Hypernym: 十二分経 (Jūni-bu-kyō)

   2. short for 経蔵 (Kyōzō): the Sutta Pitaka, one of the three divisions of the Tripitaka
   3. collective term for Buddhist literature including sutras in general

      Hypernym: 三蔵 (Sanzō)

2. (Buddhism, by extension of reading sutras) a Buddhist service or rite
3. a scripture (in religions other than Buddhism)

• (sutra): 御(お)経(きょう) (o-kyō), スートラ (sūtora)
• (discourse of the Buddha; division of Tripitaka): 契経(かいきょう) (kaikyō)

経(きょう) • (Kyō) ^{←きやう (kyau)?}

1. a surname
2. a unisex given name

From Middle Chinese 經 (MC keng|kengH). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

• (Tokyo) けー (Atamadaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

経(けい) • (kei) 

1. a warp (thread running lengthwise in a woven fabric)

   Synonym: 縦 (tate)

2. correct logic or reasoning
3. a scripture (in Buddhism, Confucianism, or other religions)

   Synonyms: 経書 (keisho), 経典 (keiten)

経(けい) • (Kei) 

1. a surname
2. a unisex given name

From Old Japanese.

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 経つ (tatsu, “to elapse; to burn out, said of a candle or oil”), itself cognate with 立つ (tatsu, “to stand”).^[1][2]

• (Tokyo) たて (Atamadaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

経(たて) • (tate) 

1. Alternative spelling of 縦 (tate): a warp (thread running lengthwise in a woven fabric); the length, height, distance, or direction between up and down, above and below, or north and south; a hierarchy
2. Short for 経糸 (tateito): a warp (thread running lengthwise in a woven fabric)
   • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 8, poem 1512:
     , text here

     經(たて)毛(も)無(なく)緯(ぬき)毛(も)不定(さだめず)未通女等之(をとめらが)織(おる)黄葉(もみちば)尓(に)霜(しも)莫零(なふりそね) [Man'yōgana]

     経(たて)もなく緯(ぬき)も定(さだ)めず娘子(をとめ)らが織(お)る黄葉(もみちば)に霜(しも)な降(ふ)りそね [Modern spelling]

     tate mo naku nuki mo sadamezu otomera ga oru momichi-ba ni shimo na-furi-so ne

     Not even vertical threads, nor crossthreads having been fixed on the momidi woven thus by the heavenly girls, please do not leat hoarfrost fall down! (because the colour would change)^[3]

経(たて) • (Tate) 

1. a surname

• (Tokyo) たてーと (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

経(たていと) • (tateito) 

1. Alternative spelling of 経糸 (tateito): a warp (thread running lengthwise in a woven fabric)

/pu/ → /fu/

From Old Japanese.

Cognate with classical verb 綜 (fu), modern 綜る (heru, “to weave a warp, said of a loom”).^[2]

経(ふ) • (fu) ^†nidan

1. (archaic) to elapse
   • 905–914, Kokin Wakashū (book 20, poem 1100)

     ちはやぶる賀茂(かも)の社(やしろ)の姫(ひめ)小(こ)松(まつ)万(よろづ)世(よ)ふとも色(いろ)は変(か)はらじ

     chihayaburu Kamo-no-yashiro no hime-komatsu yorozuyo fu to mo iro wa kawaraji

     Let ten thousand years pass, and still the Princess Pines at Kamo Shrine alive with the divine fury will not alter their color.^[4]

2. (archaic) to pass through, go through
3. (archaic) to experience