糠

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See also: 穅
糠 U+7CE0, 糠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CE0
← 糟
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 糡 →

Translingual

Han character

糠 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火木戈中水 (FDILE), four-corner 90932, composition ⿰米康)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 912, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27105
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1339, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3159, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+7CE0

Chinese

trad. 糠
simp. # 糠
2nd round simp. 粇
alternative forms 穅／糠
康
粇
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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唐 *ɡl'aːŋ
煻 *l'aːŋ
糖 *l'aːŋ
搪 *l'aːŋ
蓎 *l'aːŋ
瑭 *l'aːŋ
餹 *l'aːŋ
篖 *l'aːŋ
螗 *l'aːŋ
塘 *l'aːŋ
鶶 *l'aːŋ
赯 *l'aːŋ
磄 *l'aːŋ
溏 *l'aːŋ
傏 *l'aːŋ
鎕 *l'aːŋ
榶 *l'aːŋ
嵣 *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚 *kraːŋ
賡 *kraːŋ
鹒 *kraːŋ
康 *kʰlaːŋ
穅 *kʰlaːŋ
糠 *kʰlaːŋ
槺 *kʰlaːŋ
漮 *kʰlaːŋ
躿 *kʰlaːŋ
慷 *kʰlaːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰlaːŋ) : semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 康 (OC *kʰlaːŋ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • khong - literary;
  • khng - vernacular.
Rime
Character 糠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦岡切
Baxter khang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/kʰɑŋ/
Wang
Li 		/kʰɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hong1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 糠
Reading # 1/1
No. 3983
Phonetic
component 		庚
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		康
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰlaːŋ/
Notes 俗同穅

Definitions

糠

  1. chaff; bran; husks
  2. crumbs
    麵包糠／面包糠  ―  miànbāo kāng  ―  bread crumbs
  3. (of a radish) spongy
  4. poor quality; worthless

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

糠

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: こう (kō)←かう (kau, historical)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō)←かう (kau, historical)
  • Kun: ぬか (nuka, 糠)

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
糠
ぬか
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 糠 – see the following entry.
【ぬか】
糠: rice bran
(This term, 糠, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
糠
のが
Hyōgai
irregular
For pronunciation and definitions of 糠 – see the following entry.
【のが】
糠: (dialectal, Yamagata) rice bran
(This term, 糠, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Kikai

Kanji in this term
糠
ぬか
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *noka, form Proto-Japonic *noka. Cognate with Japanese 糠 (nuka).

Pronunciation

Noun

糠(ぬか) (nuka) 

  1. rice bran

References

  • 岩倉市郎 (1941) 喜界島方言集 [Kikai-jima Dialect Collection]‎ (in Japanese), 中央公論社, page 206

Korean

Hanja

糠 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

糠: Hán Nôm readings: khang

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