響

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

• 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.

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))

• 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

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”).

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

   • 每至晴初霜旦，林寒澗肅，常有高猿長嘯，屬引淒異，空谷傳響，哀轉久絕。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     每至晴初霜旦，林寒涧肃，常有高猿长啸，属引凄异，空谷传响，哀转久绝。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: circa early 6^th century, 酈道元,《三峽》, an excerpt from 《水經注》

     Měi zhì qíng chū shuāng dàn, lín hán jiàn sù, cháng yǒu gāo yuán cháng xiào, zhǔ yǐn qī yì, kōng gǔ chuán xiǎng, āi zhuǎn jiǔ jué.

     On frosty mornings, the sky clear at dawn, the woods and mountain brooks are shrouded in a desolate chill and stillness. High above, apes and monkeys oft let out prolonged cries, echoing one after another, piercingly sorrowful. The empty valleys reverberate with their mournful wails, lingering in the air for a long time before fading away.

   • 得意高歌，
     夜靜聲偏朗。
     無人賞，
     自家拍掌，
     唱徹千山響。 [Ci, trad.]
     得意高歌，
     夜静声偏朗。
     无人赏，
     自家拍掌，
     唱彻千山响。 [Ci, simp.]

     From: c. 18^th century, 釋正喦,《點絳脣》
     Tr. Chu Dagao

     Déyì gāogē,
     Yè jìng shēng piān lǎng.
     Wúrén shǎng,
     Zìjiā pāizhǎng,
     Chàng chè qiān shān xiǎng.

     In high spirits, loudly I sing,
     Swelling the tranquil night with full-bodied sound.
     No one praises me;
     I clap my hands alone,
     And a thousand mountains echo my song and applause.

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.

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

• (sound):

• “響”, 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–

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

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.

Shinjitai	響
Kyūjitai [1][2][3]	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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(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 響)

1. echo, resonance, reverberate
2. sound

• 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)

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

響(ひびき) • (Hibiki) 

1. a unisex given name

響 • (hyang) (hangeul 향)

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響: Hán Nôm readings: hướng, hưởng

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