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Translingual
Han character
壙 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 土戈廿金 (GITC), four-corner 40186, composition ⿰土廣)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 241, character 25
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5576
- Dae Jaweon: page 481, character 17
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 497, character 6
- Unihan data for U+58D9
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 僙
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*kʷaːŋ
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| 廣
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*kʷaːŋʔ
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| 鄺
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*kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
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| 懬
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*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
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| 爌
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*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
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| 曠
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*kʰʷaːŋs
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| 矌
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*kʰʷaːŋs
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| 壙
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*kʰʷaːŋs
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| 纊
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*kʰʷaːŋs
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| 黃
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*ɡʷaːŋ
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| 璜
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*ɡʷaːŋ
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| 潢
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*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
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| 簧
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*ɡʷaːŋ
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| 癀
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*ɡʷaːŋ
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| 鱑
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*ɡʷaːŋ
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| 獚
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*ɡʷaːŋ
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| 蟥
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*ɡʷaːŋ
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| 趪
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*ɡʷaːŋ
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| 櫎
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*ɡʷaːŋʔ
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| 擴
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*ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
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| 瀇
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*qʷaːŋʔ
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| 獷
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*kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
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| 觵
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*kʷraːŋ
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| 礦
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*kʷraːŋʔ
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| 鑛
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*kʷraːŋʔ
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| 穬
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*kʷraːŋʔ
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| 橫
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*ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ
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| 黌
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*ɡʷraːŋ
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| 鐄
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*ɡʷraːŋ
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| 嚝
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*qʰʷraːŋ
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| 彉
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*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
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| 彍
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*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰʷaːŋs) : semantic 土 (“earth; dirt”) + phonetic 廣 (OC *kʷaːŋʔ)
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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壙
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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kuàng
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ khwangH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*kʷʰˁaŋ-s/
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| English
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grave pit
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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壙
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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5376
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Phonetic
component
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黄
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Rime
group
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陽
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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曠
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Old
Chinese
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/*kʰʷaːŋs/
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Definitions
壙
- (literary) tomb; grave
- (literary) open wilderness; prairie
- (literary) Alternative form of 曠／旷 (kuàng, “vast; expansive”)
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
壙
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
壙 • (gwang) (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune–Reischauer kwang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
壙: Hán Nôm readings: khoảng
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