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See also:
U+8944, 襄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8944

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 145, +11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜口口女 (YRRV), four-corner 00732, composition 𠀎𧘇 or 𱔞)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1123, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34556
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1591, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3109, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8944

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𧞻
𡣿

to accomplish

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *snaŋ) : phonetic 𤕦 () + semantic (Li Xueqin, 2012). However, the original version on oracle bones resembles a man with raised hands while undressing; later, a hand and the radical of the cloth were added.

Etymology

“to remove”
From *s- (causative) + (OC *naŋ, “to steal; to expel”) (Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter sjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/siɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/siaŋ/
Wang
Li
/sĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/si̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
soeng1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāng xiāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjang › ‹ sjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-naŋ/ /*s-naŋ/
English remove Xiāng (personal name)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13620
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*snaŋ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. (literary) to aid; to help; to assist
  2. (literary) to accomplish; to achieve; to complete
  3. (literary) to remove
  4. (literary) to raise up; to ascend over
  5. (literary) tall; high
  6. Alternative form of (xiāng)
  7. Alternative form of
  8. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. To rise; raise

Readings

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 도울 (doul yang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: tương

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