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U+7E8A, 纊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E8A

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
(extended)
Simplified

Han character

(Kangxi radical 120, +15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈廿金 (VFITC), four-corner 20932, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 942, character 36
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28033
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1382, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3464, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7E8A

Chinese

Glyph origin

Etymology 1

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𬘢
calligraphic

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (102)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter khwangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰwɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwaŋH/
Li
Rong
/kʰuɑŋH/
Wang
Li
/kʰuɑŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kʰwɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fong3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuàng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwangH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷʰˁaŋ-s/
English fine floss silk; quilted

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. 5377
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷaːŋs/

Definitions

  1. (literary) silk wadding; silk floss
  2. silkworm cocoon
  3. Alternative form of  / (kuàng, vast; broad)
  4. Classifier for eighty threads.

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad.
simp.

Pronunciation


Definitions

(Cantonese)

  1. to bump against; to rub against
    [Cantonese, trad.]
    [Cantonese, simp.]
    ngo5 go3 hap6-2 kwang3 dou3-2 bung6 coeng4.
    My box bumped against the wall.
  2. to bolt (a door) hastily
  3. (figuratively) to compete

References

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. cotton
  2. silk

Readings

Korean

Hanja

(gwang) (hangeul , revised gwang, McCune–Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

  1. cotton
  2. padded clothes
  3. broad, wide (same as )

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khoáng

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