航

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 亢.

Han character

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

1. sail
2. navigate
3. ship, boat

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

航 (Yale hong4)

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Japanese

Kanji

航 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: わたる (wataru)

Compounds

• 航空 (こうくう, kōkū, “aviation”)
  • 航空便 (こうくうびん, kōkūbin, “airmail”)
  • 航空郵便 (こうくうゆうびん, kōkūyūbin, “airmail”)
  • 航空機 (こうくうき, kōkūki, “aircraft”)
  • 航空母艦 (こうくうぼかん, kōkūbokan, “aircraft carrier”)

Proper noun

航 (hiragana わたる, romaji Wataru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

航 (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune-Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

航 (pinyin háng (hang2), Wade-Giles hang²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

航 (hàng)