馨

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See also: 䅽 and 馫
馨 U+99A8, 馨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99A8
← 馧
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 馩 →

Translingual

Han character

馨 (Kangxi radical 186, 香+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 土水竹木日 (GEHDA), four-corner 47609, composition ⿱殸香)

  1. fragrant, aromatic

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1429, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44559
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1956, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4425, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+99A8

Chinese

trad. 馨
simp. # 馨
alternative forms 䅽
馫
𡄈
𪐕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 馨
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (殸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
殸 *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs
聲 *qʰjeŋ
謦 *kʰeːŋʔ, *kʰeːŋs
磬 *kʰeːŋs
罄 *kʰeːŋs
馨 *qʰeːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰeːŋ) : phonetic 殸 (OC *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs) + semantic 香 (“sweet”).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 馨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 呼刑切
Baxter xeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/heŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/heŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/xeŋ/
Wang
Li 		/xieŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/xieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hing1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 馨
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xīn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xeng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰˁeŋ/
English fragrance

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 馨
Reading # 1/1
No. 10520
Phonetic
component 		殸
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		馨
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰeːŋ/

Definitions

馨

  1. (literary) spread out fragrance; fragrant
  2. (literary, figurative) widespread renown and reputation

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

馨

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. fragrant
  2. balmy
  3. favourable

Readings

  • Go-on: きょう (kyō)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: かおる (kaoru, 馨る)

Compounds

Compounds

Proper noun

馨(かおる) • (Kaoru) 

  1. a unisex given name

Korean

Hanja

馨 (eumhun 꽃다울 형 (kkotdaul hyeong))
馨 (eumhun 향기 형 (hyanggi hyeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

馨: Hán Nôm readings: hinh, hanh, hênh

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