卬

See also: 卯 and 卵

卬 U+536C, 卬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-536C ← 卫 [U+536B] CJK Unified Ideographs 卭 → [U+536D]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

卬 (radical 26, 卩+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹女尸中 (HVSL), four-corner 2772₀)

1. When used as a component in other characters , 卬 can be referred to as 昂字底.

Derived charactersEdit

• 迎

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 158, character 49
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2841
• Dae Jaweon: page 363, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 310, character 12
• Unihan data for U+536C

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		卬
variant forms		𠨐 卭

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 卬
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (卬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
卬	*ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ
枊	*ŋaːŋ, *ŋaːŋs
昂	*ŋaːŋ
仰	*ŋaŋʔ, *ŋaŋs
迎	*ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 匕 + 卩: a man standing and a man kneeling; compare 化.

EtymologyEdit

Pronunciation 1Edit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): áng (ang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: áng
    • Zhuyin: ㄤˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: arng
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngong⁴
    • Yale: ngòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngong⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɔːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɑŋ/▼

Rime
Character	卬
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五岡切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋaŋ/
Li Rong	/ŋɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ŋɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	áng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k.ŋ]ˤaŋ/, /*ŋˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卬	卬
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	áng	áng
Middle Chinese	‹ ngang ›	‹ ngang ›
Old Chinese	/*[k.ŋ]ˤaŋ/	/*ŋˤaŋ/
English	high; lift high	I, me
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	卬
Reading #	1/2
No.	27
Phonetic component	卬
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	卬
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːŋ/

DefinitionsEdit

卬

1. I
2. Alternative form of 昂.
   1. to raise
   2. high
3. A surname​.

Pronunciation 2Edit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǎng (yang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˇ
    • Wade–Giles: yang³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeang
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɨɐŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	卬
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	魚兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨɐŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋiɐŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɨaŋX/
Li Rong	/ŋiaŋX/
Wang Li	/ŋĭaŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯aŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǎng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卬
Reading #	2/2
No.	32
Phonetic component	卬
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	仰
Old Chinese	/*ŋaŋʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

卬

1. Alternative form of 仰.

CompoundsEdit

• 卬卬
• 卬燥

• 卬首信眉

• 瞻卬

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

卬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. lofty
2. high
3. raise
4. high-priced

ReadingsEdit

• On (unclassified): ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}; きょう (kyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kun: のぞむ (nozomu); なす (nasu); たかぶる (takaburu)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

卬 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang)

1. I, oneself
2. high
3. raise

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

卬 (ngang, ngàng)

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