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U+7DB1, 綱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DB1

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 120, +8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火月廿山 (VFBTU), four-corner 27920, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 927, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27576
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1364, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3414, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7DB1

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *klaːŋ) : semantic (rope) + phonetic (OC *klaːŋ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter kang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaŋ/
Li
Rong
/kɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/kɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gong1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kang ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˁaŋ/
English guiding rope of net

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3716
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*klaːŋ/

Definitions

  1. guiding principle
  2. essential part, key part
  3. program, outline
  4. (taxonomy) class
  5. (archaic) headrope, main rope of a fishing net

Compounds

See also

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. rope, cable
  2. genus, class

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
つな
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *tuna.

First attested in the Harima Fudoki of 715 CE.

Pronunciation

Noun

(つな) (tsuna

  1. rope
  2. tsuna; ceremonial sumo belt
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
こう
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC kang). Compare Korean (gang).

Pronunciation

Noun

(こう) (かう (kau)?

  1. (taxonomy) class
Coordinate terms

References

  1. ^ ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

(gang) (hangeul , revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Okinawan

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *tuna, from Proto-Japonic *tuna. Cognate with Japanese (つな, tsuna).

Noun

(ちな) (china

  1. rope

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: cương, cáng

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