贛

Translingual

Han character

贛 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+17, 24 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹水金 (YJHEC), four-corner 0748₆, composition ⿰章⿱夂貢)

Derived characters

• 㔶 灨 𢦅 𧆐 戇 䀍 𧗜 𥸡

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1213, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36984
• Dae Jaweon: page 1680, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3661, character 19
• Unihan data for U+8D1B

• Unihan data for U+2F9D6

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 贛
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

In the bronze script, it was attested as 𬔧, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 章 (“jade ornament”) + 丮 (“to hold”) – holding a jade ornament > “to bestow”. The 丮 component corrupts into 欠 or 次, and later to 夂 or a variant with 二 under 夂. An additional semantic component 貝 (“cowrie; money”) was often added. The 二 and 貝 components combine to form an emergent phonetic component 貢 (OC *koːŋs).

Shuowen reinterprets it as a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms) : abbreviated phonetic 竷 (OC *kʰluːms) + semantic 貝 (“shell; money”), but this is not supported by earlier scripts.

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

Definitions

贛

1. (～江, ～水) Gan River (a river in Jiangxi, China)
2. Alternative name for 江西 (Jiāngxī, “Jiangxi, a province of China.”).
3. Gan; Gan Chinese

   贛語／赣语  ―  gànyǔ  ―  Gan (a variant of the Chinese language)

Compounds

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

Definitions

贛

1. ^† to grant; to bestow
2. a surname

Etymology 3

Compounds

References

• “贛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Jiangxi province
2. various places in Jiangxi province

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku); かう (kau); かん (kan)
• Kan-on: こう (kō); かう (kau); かん (kan)
• Kun: たまう (tamau, 贛う)

Korean

Hanja

贛 (eumhun 줄 공 (jul gong))

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贛 (eumhun 강 이름 감 (gang ireum gam))

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贛 (eumhun 미련할 장 (miryeonhal jang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

贛: Hán Việt readings: cống

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