惸

惸 U+60F8, 惸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60F8 ← 惷 [U+60F7] CJK Unified Ideographs 惹 → [U+60F9]

Translingual

Han character

惸 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 心心日木 (PPAD), four-corner 9704₇, composition ⿰忄㝁)

1. troubled, worried, distressed

Derived characters

• 𥖒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 392, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10865
• Dae Jaweon: page 728, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2330, character 8
• Unihan data for U+60F8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		惸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	*ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	*qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	*ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	*sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	*kʷin, *kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	*ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀	*ɢʷin
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qióng (qiong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): king⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qióng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyóng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiung²
    • Yale: chyúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyong
    • Palladius: цюн (cjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: king⁴
    • Yale: kìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: king⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: king⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gjwieng

Rime
Character	惸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	清 (122)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠營切
Baxter	gjwieng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡwiᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡʷiɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiuæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gwiajŋ/
Li Rong	/ɡiuɛŋ/
Wang Li	/ɡĭwɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯wɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qióng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	king4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷeŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	惸
Reading #	1/1
No.	16423
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	瓊
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷeŋ/

Definitions

惸

1. Alternative form of 煢／茕 (qióng)

   • 哿矣富人，哀此惸獨。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     哿矣富人，哀此惸独。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Gě yǐ fùrén, āi cǐ qióng dú. [Pinyin]

     The rich may get through, but alas for the helpless and solitary!

Compounds

• 孤惸
• 惸嫠
• 惸惸 (qióngqióng)
• 惸獨／惸独

 

Japanese

Kanji

惸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei); ぎょう (gyō)
• Kun: うれえる (urēru)

Korean

Hanja

惸 (eum 경 (gyeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

惸: Hán Nôm readings: quỳnh

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References

• Nom Foundation