響

響 U+FA69, 響 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA69 ← 難 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 頻 →

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Note that Japanese shinjitai replaces 鄉 with 郷, dropping the top stroke on 良 and instead drawing 艮.
• The Korean form replaces 鄉 with 鄕, with 皀 in the middle instead of 良.
• Due to Han unification, Chinese, Japanese and Korean forms are encoded under the same code point.
• Two unicode z-variants exist. U+FA69 corresponds to its Kangxi Dictionary form, which is also the kyūjitai form while U+FACA corresponds to its shinjitai form.

Han character

響 (Kangxi radical 180, 音+11 in Chinese, 音+10 in Japanese, 21 strokes in Chinese, 20 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 女中卜廿日 (VLYTA), four-corner 2760₁, composition ⿱鄉音(GHTV) or ⿱郷音(J or U+FACA) or ⿱鄕音(K))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1398, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43318
• Dae Jaweon: page 1914, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4498, character 10
• Unihan data for U+97FF

• Unihan data for U+FA69

• Unihan data for U+FACA

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 響
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰaŋʔ) : phonetic 鄉 (OC *qʰaŋ) + semantic 音 (“sound”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Definitions

響

1. to make a sound; to make a noise

   響板／响板  ―  xiǎngbǎn  ―  castanets

   電話響了。／电话响了。  ―  Diànhuà xiǎng le.  ―  The phone is ringing.

   你電話響緊。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   你电话响紧。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ din⁶ waa^6-2 hoeng² gan².

   Your phone is ringing.

   • 濕水炮仗點會響？ [Cantonese, trad.]
     湿水炮仗点会响？ [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 許冠傑, 半斤八兩 (bànjīnbāliǎng)

     sap¹ seoi² paau³ zoeng^6-2 dim² wui⁵ hoeng²?

     How does a wet firecracker go off?

2. (of sounds) loud and clear; resonant

   響亮／响亮  ―  xiǎngliàng  ―  loud and clear

3. famous; reputable
4. having a great impact
5. sound
6. echo
7. news; messages
8. (Cantonese) to tell; to declare

   唔早響？／唔早响？ [Cantonese]  ―  m⁴ zou² hoeng²?   ―  Why didn't tell me about this earlier?

   響朵／响朵 [Cantonese]  ―  hoeng² do²   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

9. Classifier for sounds.

Synonyms

• (to make a sound): 出聲／出声 (chūshēng)
• (loud and clear):

• (sound):

Compounds

Etymology 2

From 向 (MC xjangH, “to face; towards”) (Chan, 1998; Chan and Cheung, 2019).

Pronunciation

Definitions

響

1. (Cantonese) to be at

   你響邊？／你响边？ [Cantonese]  ―  nei⁵ hoeng² bin¹?   ―  Where are you?

   我響你隔籬。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我响你隔篱。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ hoeng² nei⁵ gaak³ lei⁴.

   I am next to you.

   我響處。／我响处。 [Cantonese]  ―  ngo⁵ hoeng² syu³.   ―  I am here.

2. (Cantonese) at; in

   你父母響校務處等緊你。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   你父母响校务处等紧你。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ fu⁶ mou⁵ hoeng² haau⁶ mou⁶ cyu³ dang² gan² nei⁵.

   Your parents are waiting for you at the administration office.

Synonyms

Japanese

Shinjitai	響
Kyūjitai	響 響 or 響+︀?
	響󠄁 響+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	響󠄈 響+󠄈? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
	響󠄃 響+󠄃? (Adobe-Japan1)
	響󠄉 響+󠄉? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
	響󠄂 響+󠄂? (Adobe-Japan1)
	響󠄊 響+󠄊? (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 響)

1. echo, resonance, reverberate
2. sound

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kun: ひびく (hibiku, 響く, Jōyō); ひびかす (hibikasu, 響かす); ひびき (hibiki, 響き)
• Nanori: おと (oto); なり (nari); ひびき (hibiki)

Compounds

• 方響(ほうきょう) (hōkyō): hōkyō, an instrument similar to the Chinese fangxiang

Proper noun

響(ひびき) • (Hibiki) 

1. a female given name

References

Korean

Hanja

響 • (hyang) (hangeul 향)

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Vietnamese

Han character

響: Hán Nôm readings: hướng, hưởng

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