馨

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 殸 + semantic 香 (“sweet”)

Han character

馨 (radical 186 香+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 土水竹木日 (GEHDA), four-corner 4760₉)

1. fragrant, aromatic
2. distant fragrance

References

• KangXi: page 1429, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44559
• Dae Jaweon: page 1956, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4425, character 8
• Unihan data for U+99A8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

馨 (Yale hing1)

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Japanese

Kanji

馨

Readings

• On: けい (kei), きょう (kyō)
• Kun: かおる (kaoru), かおり (kaori)

Proper noun

馨 (hiragana かおる, romaji Kaoru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

馨 (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune-Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

馨 (pinyin xīn (xin1), Wade-Giles hsin¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

馨 (hinh, hanh, hênh)