罄

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罄 U+7F44, 罄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F44
← 罃
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 罅 →

Translingual

Han character

罄 (Kangxi radical 121, 缶+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土水人十山 (GEOJU), four-corner 47774, composition ⿱殸缶)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 945, character 45
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28167
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1386, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2938, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+7F44

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 罄

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰeːŋs) : phonetic 殸 (OC *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs) + semantic 缶 (“pottery”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 罄
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 罄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qìng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khengH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁeŋ-s/
English empty; exhaustively

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 罄
Reading # 1/1
No. 10519
Phonetic
component 		殸
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		罄
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰeːŋs/

Definitions

罄

  1. empty
  2. exhaust, run out, use up

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

罄

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. exhaust
  2. run out
  3. use up
  4. empty

Readings

  • On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)
  • Kun: むなしい (munashī)

Korean

Hanja

罄 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

  1. empty
  2. exhaust
  3. a kind of Chinese musical instrument made of stone or jade

Vietnamese

Han character

罄: Hán Nôm readings: khánh

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