宫

宫 U+5BAB, 宫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BAB ← 宪 [U+5BAA] CJK Unified Ideographs 宬 → [U+5BAC]

See also: 宮 and 官

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Simplified from 宮 (呂 → 吕) – Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 + 吕: many rooms under a roof (a palace).

Note that though 宮 (with joined boxes: 呂) is the traditional form, the form 宫 (with unjoined boxes: 吕) dates to oracle script, and was used in succeeding forms as well.

Han characterEdit

宫 (radical 40 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十口口 (JRR), composition ⿱宀吕)

1. palace
2. temple
3. dwelling
4. enclose
5. first note in the Chinese pentatonic scale (do)

SynonymsEdit

• 殿
• 闕, 阙

See alsoEdit

• 宸

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 285, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 926, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BAB

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ChineseEdit

For pronunciation and definitions of 宫 – see 宮. (This character, 宫, is the simplified form of 宮.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

宫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• On (unclassified): きゅう (kyū), ぐう (gū)
• Kun: みや (miya), いえ (ie)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

宫 • (gung) (hangeul 궁, revised gung, McCune-Reischauer kung)

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