航

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Translingual

Han character

航 (Kangxi radical 137, 舟+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜卜竹弓 (HYYHN), four-corner 20417, composition ⿰舟亢)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1009, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30385
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1467, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3058, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+822A

Chinese

trad. 航
simp. # 航

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亢) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笐 *kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs
亢 *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs
牨 *kaːŋ
苀 *kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
魧 *kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
迒 *kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
邟 *kʰaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
忼 *kʰaːŋʔ, *qʰaːŋ
骯 *kʰaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *qaːŋ
抗 *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
炕 *kʰaːŋs, *qʰaːŋ
伉 *kʰaːŋs
閌 *kʰaːŋs
犺 *kʰaːŋs
蚢 *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
砊 *kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
阬 *kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
頏 *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
航 *ɡaːŋ
杭 *ɡaːŋ
沆 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
肮 *ɡaːŋ
吭 *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋs
秔 *kraːŋ
坑 *kʰraːŋ
劥 *kʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡaːŋ) : semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 亢 (OC *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs).

Pronunciation

Note: pang5 - vernacular (俗) (etymological character may be 帆 (pang5)).
Rime
Character 航
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡郎切
Baxter hang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɣɑŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɣɑŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɣɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		háng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hong4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 航
Reading # 1/1
No. 7378
Phonetic
component 		亢
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		航
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡaːŋ/

Definitions

航

  1. ship; boat
  2. to sail; to navigate; (of airplane) to fly

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

航

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: ごう (gō)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: わたる (wataru, 航る)

Compounds

Proper noun

航(わたる) • (Wataru) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

航 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune–Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

航: Hán Nôm readings: hàng

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