詠

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See also: 咏
詠 U+8A60, 詠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A60
← 詟
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 詡 →

Translingual

Han character

詠 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜口戈弓水 (YRINE), four-corner 03632, composition ⿰訁永)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1156, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35409
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1621, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3957, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8A60

Chinese

trad. 詠/咏
simp. 咏
nonstandard simp. 𰵞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (永) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
永 *ɢʷraŋʔ
栐 *ɢʷraŋʔ
泳 *ɢʷraŋs
詠 *ɢʷraŋs
咏 *ɢʷraŋs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 詠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 庚 (112)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 爲命切
Baxter hjwaengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠwiæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷᵚiaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiuaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦwiajŋH/
Li
Rong 		/ɣiuɐŋH/
Wang
Li 		/ɣĭwɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯wɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wing6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 詠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yǒng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hjwaengH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷraŋ-s/
English chant (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 詠
Reading # 1/1
No. 15426
Phonetic
component 		永
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		詠
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷraŋs/

Definitions

詠

  1. to sing; to hum; to chant
  2. to describe in poetic language
    詠女蘿／咏女萝  ―  Yǒng Nǚluó  ―  On the Dodder

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

詠

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. recitation
  2. poem
  3. song
  4. composing

Readings

See also

Etymology

Kanji in this term
詠
えい
Grade: S
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 詠 (MC hjwaengH).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

Affix

詠(えい) • (ei) 

  1. recite (poetry); sing; hum; chant
  2. compose (poetry)
  3. poetry

Noun

詠(えい) • (ei) 

  1. (literary) the composition of poetry; composed poetry
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References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

詠 (eum 영 (yeong))

  1. sing, hum, chant

References

Vietnamese

Han character

詠: Hán Nôm readings: vịnh, vẳng, vạnh

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