磬

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磬 U+78EC, 磬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78EC
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 磭 →

Translingual

Han character

磬 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土水一口 (GEMR), four-corner 47601, composition ⿱殸石)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 836, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24454
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1253, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2451, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+78EC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 磬
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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (殸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
殸 *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs
聲 *qʰjeŋ
謦 *kʰeːŋʔ, *kʰeːŋs
磬 *kʰeːŋs
罄 *kʰeːŋs
馨 *qʰeːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 殸 + 石 (“stone”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 磬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 苦定切
Baxter khengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰeŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰeŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰɛjŋH/
Li
Rong 		/kʰeŋH/
Wang
Li 		/kʰieŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qìng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hing3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 磬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qìng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khengH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁeŋ-s/
English suspend

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 磬
Reading # 1/1
No. 10518
Phonetic
component 		殸
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		罄
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰeːŋs/

Definitions

磬

  1. stone chimes; sounding stone; qing
  2. (Buddhism) inverted bell (a Buddhist percussion instrument)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (磬):
  • → Japanese: 磬(きょう) (kyō); 磬(けい) (kei)
  • → Korean: 경(磬) (gyeong)
  • → Vietnamese: khánh (磬)

See also

Japanese

Kanji

磬

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. upside-V-shaped gong

Readings

  • Go-on: きょう (kyō)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: うちいし (uchiishi)、むなしい (munashii)、つきる (tsukiru)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

磬 (eum 경 (gyeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

磬: Hán Nôm readings: khánh

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