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U+5244, 剄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5244

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 18, +7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一一中弓 (MMLN), four-corner 12100, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 139, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1990
  • Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 340, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5244

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *keːŋʔ) : phonetic (OC *keːŋ) + semantic (knife)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (125)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter kengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/keŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/keŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɛŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɛjŋX/
Li
Rong
/keŋX/
Wang
Li
/kieŋX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kieŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jǐng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ging2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jǐng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kengX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁeŋʔ/
English cut the throat

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6803
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*keːŋʔ/

Definitions

  1. (literary) to cut one's throat (Chinese ritual suicide, like seppuku in Japan)

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. beheading

Readings

  • Go-on: きょう (kyō)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: くびきる (kubikiru, 剄る)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(gyeong) (hangeul , revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng)

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