膿

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See also: 脓
膿 U+81BF, 膿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81BF
← 膾
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 臀 →

Translingual

Han character

膿 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月廿田女 (BTWV), four-corner 75232, composition ⿰⺼農)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 996, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29938
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2116, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+81BF

Chinese

trad. 膿
simp. 脓

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

Pronunciation

Note:
  • nè̤ng - vernacular;
  • nùng - literary.
Note:
  • lông - literary;
  • lâng - vernacular.
Note:
  • long5 - literary;
  • lang5 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 膿
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 冬 (5)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 奴冬切
Baxter nowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/nuoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/nuoŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/noŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/nawŋ/
Li
Rong 		/noŋ/
Wang
Li 		/nuoŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/nuoŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nóng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		nung4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 膿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		nóng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nowng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.nˁuŋ/
English pus

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 膿
Reading # 1/1
No. 9575
Phonetic
component 		農
Rime
group 		終
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		農
Old
Chinese 		/*nuːŋ/

Definitions

膿

  1. pus

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Katuic: *pnuŋ (“pus”)
  • → Proto-Tai: *ʰnoːŋᴬ (“pus”)

Japanese

Kanji

膿

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: の (no)、のう (nō)
  • Kan-on: どう (dō)
  • Kun: うむ (umu, 膿む)、うみ (umi, 膿)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
膿
うみ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
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⟨umi1⟩ → */umʲi/ → /umi/

Possibly from Old Japanese.

Nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 膿む (umu, “to fester”).

Pronunciation

Noun

膿(うみ) • (umi) 

  1. pus
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
膿
のう
Hyōgai
goon

From Middle Chinese 膿 (MC nowng).

Pronunciation

Affix

膿(のう) • (nō) 

  1. (medicine) pus
Derived terms
Derived terms

Noun

膿(のう) • (nō) 

  1. (medicine) pus

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

膿 (eumhun 고름 농 (goreum nong))

  1. hanja form? of 농 (“pus”)
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