閶

See also: 阊

閶 U+95B6, 閶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95B6 ← 閵 [U+95B5] CJK Unified Ideographs 閷 → [U+95B7]

Translingual

Han character

閶 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日弓日日 (ANAA), four-corner 7760₆, composition ⿵門昌)

1. gate of heaven
2. main gate of palace

Derived characters

• 𨇡

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1336, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41367
• Dae Jaweon: page 1842, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4304, character 5
• Unihan data for U+95B6

Chinese

trad.		閶
simp.		阊

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
昌	*tʰjaŋ
倡	*tʰjaŋ, *tʰjaŋs
猖	*tʰjaŋ
菖	*tʰjaŋ
閶	*tʰjaŋ
鯧	*tʰjaŋ
裮	*tʰjaŋ
琩	*tʰjaŋ
唱	*tʰjaŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chāng (chang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chang
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang¹
    • Yale: chāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chang
    • Palladius: чан (čan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng¹
    • Yale: chēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhang

Rime
Character	閶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尺良切
Baxter	tsyhang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiaŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	閶
Reading #	1/1
No.	1253
Phonetic component	昌
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	昌
Old Chinese	/*tʰjaŋ/

Definitions

閶

1. Used in 閶闔／阊阖 (chānghé).

Compounds

• 金閶／金阊
• 閶門／阊门 (Chāngmén)
• 閶闔／阊阖 (chānghé)
• 閶闔風／阊阖风
• 閶風／阊风 (chāngfēng)

 

Japanese

Kanji

閶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. gate of heaven
2. main gate of palace

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan’yō-on: とう (tō)

Korean

Hanja

閶 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

1. gate of heaven
2. zephyr