央

Translingual

Han character

央 (radical 37 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中月大 (LBK), four-corner 5003₀)

1. centre, conclude, run out
2. beg

Derived characters

• 映 英

References

• KangXi: page 249, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5840
• Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 524, character 6
• Unihan data for U+592E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

央 (jyutping joeng1, Yale yeung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

央 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. centre, middle

Readings

• On: おう (ō)
• Kun: なかば (nakaba)

Compounds

• 震央
• 中央

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Korean

Hanja

央 (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune-Reischauer ang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

央 (pinyin bèn (ben4), yāng (yang1), Wade-Giles pen⁴, yang¹)

Compounds

• 央告
• 央行
• 央求
• 央托
• 中央 (central)

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Vietnamese

Han character

央 (ương)