濃

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See also: 浓
濃 U+6FC3, 濃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6FC3
← 濂
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 濄 →

Translingual

Han character

濃 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水廿田女 (ETWV), four-corner 35132, composition ⿰氵農)

Descendants

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 654, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18442
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1064, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1756, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6FC3

Chinese

trad. 濃
simp. 浓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (農) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嶩 *nuː
噥 *rnuːŋ, *nuːŋ
鬞 *rnuːŋ, *noŋ
擃 *rnuːŋʔ
齈 *noːŋs
癑 *noːŋs
農 *nuːŋ
辳 *nuːŋ
憹 *nuːŋ
膿 *nuːŋ
儂 *nuːŋ
濃 *noŋ
醲 *noŋ
襛 *noŋ, *njoŋ
穠 *noŋ, *njoŋ
檂 *noŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *noŋ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 農 (OC *nuːŋ).

Etymology

Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 濃 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 濃 (Cantonese)
  • 濃 (Wu)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːŋ (“heavy; thick, viscous”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • Meixian:
    • nung2 - literary;
    • ngiung2 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 濃
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 娘 (12)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 女容切
Baxter nrjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɳɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɳioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/nioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɳuawŋ/
Li
Rong 		/nioŋ/
Wang
Li 		/nĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ni̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nóng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nung4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 濃
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		nóng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nrjowng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*n<r>oŋ/
English thick (esp. as a liquid); strong (drink)

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 濃
Reading # 1/1
No. 9577
Phonetic
component 		農
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		醲
Old
Chinese 		/*noŋ/

Definitions

濃

  1. thick; concentrated
  2. (of colors) deep
    Synonym: 深 (shēn)
    Antonyms: 淺／浅, 淡
  3. (of beverage) strong; concentrated

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 釅 (“(of a liquid) concentrated; (of a beverage) strong”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 釅, 濃
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 釅
Taiwan 濃
Singapore 濃
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 釅
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 釅
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 釅
Wuhan 釅
Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 濃
Hefei 濃
Cantonese Guangzhou 濃
Hong Kong 濃
Taishan 濃
Yangjiang 濃
Singapore (Guangfu) 濃
Gan Nanchang 釅
Hakka Meixian 釅
Jin Taiyuan 釅
Northern Min Jian'ou 濃
Eastern Min Fuzhou 濃, 鎮
Southern Min Xiamen 厚
Quanzhou 厚
Zhangzhou 厚
Tainan 厚
Singapore (Hokkien) 厚
Chaozhou 釅, 厚
Zhongshan Min Zhongshan (Sanxiang) 厚, 濃
Wu Suzhou 濃
Wenzhou 濃
Xiang Changsha 釅
Shuangfeng 釅, 濃

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

濃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. dark
  2. thick

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
濃
のう
Grade: S
kan'yōon

Pronunciation

Affix

濃(のう) • (nō) 

  1. dark color

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
濃
こ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Prefix

濃(こ) • (ko-) 

  1. dark color

Korean

Hanja

濃 (eumhun 짙을 농 (jiteul nong))

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

濃: Hán Nôm readings: nùng, nống, nồng, nông

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