翔

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翔 U+7FD4, 翔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FD4
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 翕 →

Translingual

Han character

翔 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿手尸一一 (TQSMM), four-corner 87520, composition ⿰羊羽)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 956, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28689
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1402, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3348, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7FD4

Chinese

trad. 翔
simp. # 翔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (羊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
样 *ʔslaːŋ, *laŋ
佯 *zlaŋ, *laŋ
詳 *ljaŋ, *laŋ
洋 *ljaŋ, *laŋ
翔 *ljaŋ
庠 *ljaŋ
祥 *ljaŋ
痒 *ljaŋ, *laŋʔ
姜 *klaŋ
羌 *kʰlaŋ
蜣 *kʰlaŋ
猐 *kʰlaŋ
唴 *kʰlaŋs
羊 *laŋ
徉 *laŋ
烊 *laŋ
蛘 *laŋ, *laŋʔ
眻 *laŋ, *laŋs
鴹 *laŋ
恙 *laŋs
羕 *laŋs
樣 *laŋs
漾 *laŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljaŋ) : phonetic 羊 (OC *laŋ) + semantic 羽 (“feathers”)

Etymology 1

Iterative of 徉 (OC *laŋ) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 翔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 似羊切
Baxter zjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/zɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ziɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ziɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/zɨaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ziaŋ/
Wang
Li 		/zĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/zi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiáng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		coeng4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 翔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xiáng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zjang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.aŋ/
English fly back and forth; soar

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 翔
Reading # 1/1
No. 14526
Phonetic
component 		羊
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		詳
Old
Chinese 		/*ljaŋ/

Definitions

翔

  1. to fly; to soar

Compounds

Etymology 2

After a netizen on Tieba named 軍神李翔／军神李翔 (Jūnshén Lǐ Xiáng, “Li Xiang the God of War”). In 2011, he argued with other netizens for many days, and the argument finally ended with his comment 我他媽就是一坨屎／我他妈就是一坨屎 (“I'm a fucking pile of shit”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

翔

  1. (Mainland China, neologism, Internet slang) shit
    吃翔  ―  chī xiáng  ―  to eat shit

Japanese

Shinjitai 翔
Kyūjitai
[1]
翔󠄁
翔+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
翔󠄃
翔+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

翔

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. soar

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

翔(しょう) • (Shō) 

  1. a male given name

References

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

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 翔 (MC zjang). Recorded as Middle Korean 샤ᇰ (syang) (Yale: syang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

翔 (eumhun 날 상 (nal sang))

  1. hanja form? of 상 (“soar”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

翔: Hán Nôm readings: tường

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