膺

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膺 U+81BA, 膺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81BA
← 膹
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 膻 →

Translingual

Han character

膺 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 戈人土月 (IOGB), four-corner 00227, composition ⿸䧹月)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 995, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29928
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1446, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2118, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+81BA

Chinese

trad. 膺
simp. # 膺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鷹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
應 *qɯŋ, *qɯŋs
鷹 *qɯŋ
膺 *qɯŋ
譍 *qɯŋs
噟 *qɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qɯŋ) : phonetic 𤸰 () + semantic 肉 (“body”).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b/g-raŋ (“chest”). Related to 應 (OC *qɯŋ, *qɯŋs, “to face, respond”); outside of Sinitic, compare Tibetan བྲང (brang, “chest, breast”), Burmese ရင် (rang, “idem”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 膺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於陵切
Baxter 'ing
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔiŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ʔiəŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ĭəŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jing1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 膺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yīng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔing ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(r)əŋ/
English breast(plate); oppose

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 膺
Reading # 1/1
No. 15348
Phonetic
component 		鷹
Rime
group 		蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		膺
Old
Chinese 		/*qɯŋ/

Definitions

膺

  1. (literary) breast; chest
    義憤填膺／义愤填膺  ―  yìfèntiányīng  ―  to feel indignant at injustice
  2. (ancient, of horses) breast strap
  3. (literary) to undertake; to bear
  4. (literary) to attack

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

膺

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. breast

Readings

  • On (unclassified): よう (yō)、おう (ō)
  • Kun: むね (mune)

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 膺 (MC 'ing). Recorded as Middle Korean 으ᇰ (ung) (Yale: ung) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

膺 (eumhun 가슴 응 (gaseum eung))

  1. hanja form? of 응 (“breasts”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

膺: Hán Nôm readings: ưng, ứng

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