刑

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See also: 形, 邢, and 型
刑 U+5211, 刑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5211
← 刐
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 划 →

Translingual

Han character

刑 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一廿中弓 (MTLN), four-corner 12400, composition ⿰开刂)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 137, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1886
  • Dae Jaweon: page 308, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 324, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5211

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 刑
alternative forms 㓝
𠛬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (井) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
硎 *kʰreːŋ, *ɡeːŋ
耕 *kreːŋ
荊 *keŋ
井 *skeŋʔ
丼 *kl'oːmʔ, *skeŋʔ
妌 *sɡeŋʔ
穽 *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
阱 *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
汫 *sɡeːŋʔ
刑 *ɡeːŋ
形 *ɡeːŋ
邢 *ɡeːŋ
鉶 *ɡeːŋ
型 *ɡeːŋ
侀 *ɡeːŋ

Originally written as 㓝, phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡeːŋ) : phonetic 井 (OC *skeŋʔ) + semantic 刂. Later corrupted as 𠛬 (⿰幵刂), phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡeːŋ) : phonetic 幵 (OC *kŋeːn) + semantic 刂.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 刑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 戸經切
Baxter heng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦeŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɣeŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɣieŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɣieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xíng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jing4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 刑 刑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xíng xíng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ heng › ‹ heng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁeŋ/ /*ˁeŋ/
English punish(ment) model, form

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 刑
Reading # 1/1
No. 6861
Phonetic
component 		井
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		㓝
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡeːŋ/

Definitions

刑

  1. penalty; sentence; punishment
  2. corporal punishment; torture
  3. (literary) to slaughter; to massacre
  4. † model; example
  5. † to set an example; to follow an example
  6. a surname: Xing

Synonyms

Compounds

References

  • “刑”, 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–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “刑”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 265.

Japanese

Shinjitai

刑

Kyūjitai

𠛬

Kanji

刑

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 𠛬)

  1. penalty, punishment
  2. to punish
  3. to execute (to kill as a penalty)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

刑(けい) • (kei) 

  1. punishment

Suffix

刑(けい) • (-kei) 

  1. punishment; sentence; penalty

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

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Wikisource

刑 (eum 형 (hyeong))

  1. punishment, penalty
  2. law

Vietnamese

Han character

刑: Hán Nôm readings: hình

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