觥

觥 U+89E5, 觥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89E5 ← 觤 [U+89E4] CJK Unified Ideographs 触 → [U+89E6]

Translingual

Han character

觥 (Kangxi radical 148, 角+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓月火一山 (NBFMU), four-corner 2921₁, composition ⿰角光)

1. wine vessel made of horn

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1142, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35069
• Dae Jaweon: page 1609, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3924, character 3
• Unihan data for U+89E5

Chinese

trad.		觥
simp. #		觥
alternative forms		觵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 觥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
光	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
灮	*kʷaːŋ
洸	*kʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋ
桄	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs
胱	*kʷaːŋ
垙	*kʷaːŋ
輄	*kʷaːŋ
恍	*kʷaːŋ, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
茪	*kʷaːŋ
侊	*kʷaːŋ, *kʷraːŋ
晃	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
幌	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
榥	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
滉	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
觥	*kʷraːŋ
駫	*kʷeːŋ

Etymology

See 角 (OC *kroːɡ, *ɡ·roːɡ, “horn”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōng (gong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gong
    • Wade–Giles: kung¹
    • Yale: gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gong
    • Palladius: гун (gun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwang¹
    • Yale: gwāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gueng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwaeng

Rime
Character	觥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	庚 (110)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古橫切
Baxter	kwaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠwæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/kuɐŋ/
Wang Li	/kwɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwang1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤraŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷraːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	觥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gōng
Middle Chinese	‹ kwæng ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷˁraŋ/
English	drinking horn
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	觥
Reading #	1/1
No.	4524
Phonetic component	光
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*kʷraːŋ/

Definitions

觥

1. (historical) drinking vessel made from animal horn
2. (historical) bronze wine vessel in the shape of an animal or animal head, with a cover, a handle, and sometimes a ladle
3. large; sumptuous

Compounds

• 交錯觥籌／交错觥筹
• 兕觥
• 巨觥 (jùgōng)
• 杯觥交錯／杯觥交错 (bēigōngjiāocuò)
• 觥令
• 觥籌交舉／觥筹交举 (gōngchóujiāojǔ)
• 觥籌交錯／觥筹交错 (gōngchóujiāocuò)
• 觥籌獄／觥筹狱
• 觥船
• 觥觥
• 走斝飛觥／走斝飞觥
• 飛觥獻斝／飞觥献斝
• 飛觥走斝／飞觥走斝
• 飛觥限斝／飞觥限斝

 

Japanese

Kanji

觥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cup made of horn
2. obstinate

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: つのさかずき (tsunosakazuki)

Korean

Hanja

觥 • (goeng) (hangeul 굉, revised goeng, McCune–Reischauer koeng, Yale koyng)

1. a horn chalice