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U+66E9, 曩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66E9

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 72, +17, 21 strokes, cangjie input 日卜口女 (AYRV), four-corner 60732, composition )

  1. in ancient times, of old, former

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 501, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14258
  • Dae Jaweon: page 872, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1542, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+66E9

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan གནའ་བོ (gna' bo, ancient; in old times) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (8)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter nangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nɑŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/nɑŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/naŋX/
Li
Rong
/nɑŋX/
Wang
Li
/nɑŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nɑŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nǎng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
nong5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nǎng
Middle
Chinese
‹ nangX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˁaŋʔ/
English in past times

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. 13610
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*naːŋʔ/

Definitions

  1. previously; in the past

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. before, former, previous

Readings

  • Go-on: のう ()なう (nau, historical)
  • Kan-on: どう ()だう (dau, historical)
  • Kun: さき (saki, )さきに (sakini, 曩に)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(eum (nang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: nẵng, nán

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