衖

衖 U+8856, 衖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8856 ← 衕 [U+8855] CJK Unified Ideographs 街 → [U+8857]

Translingual

Han character

衖 (Kangxi radical 144, 行+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人廿金弓 (HOTCN), four-corner 2122₁, composition ⿴行共 or ⿲彳共亍)

1. lane
2. alley

Derived characters

• 𣽣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1109, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34049
• Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 832, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8856

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡroːŋs) : semantic 行 + phonetic 共 (OC *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs)

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		衖

Characters in the same phonetic series (共) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
港	*kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
巷	*ɡroːŋs
衖	*ɡroːŋs
鬨	*ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
烘	*qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
洪	*ɡloːŋ
鉷	*ɡloːŋ
谼	*ɡloːŋ
葓	*ɡoːŋ
哄	*ɡloːŋs
蕻	*ɡloːŋs
恭	*kloŋ
供	*kloŋ, *kloŋs
龔	*kloŋ
珙	*kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
共	*kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
髸	*kloŋ
拱	*kloŋʔ
拲	*kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
蛬	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
栱	*kloŋʔ
輁	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
舼	*ɡloŋ
輂	*kloɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiàng (xiang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hong⁶
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶ghaon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siàng
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang⁴
    • Yale: syàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shianq
    • Palladius: сян (sjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hong⁶
    • Yale: hohng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hong⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hong⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːŋ²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ghaon
    • MiniDict: ghaon^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦɑ̃²³/

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• Middle Chinese: haewngH

Rime
Character	衖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡絳切
Baxter	haewngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠʌŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚɔŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɔŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨwŋH/
Li Rong	/ɣɔŋH/
Wang Li	/ɣɔŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɔŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hong6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡroːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衖
Reading #	1/1
No.	4152
Phonetic component	共
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	巷
Old Chinese	/*ɡroːŋs/

Definitions

衖

1. Same as 巷.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 衖 – see 弄 (“alley; lane”). (This character is a variant form of 弄).

Japanese

Kanji

衖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: ちまた (chimata)

Vietnamese

Han character

衖: Hán Nôm readings: hạng, lộng

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