晌

晌 U+664C, 晌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-664C ← 晋 [U+664B] CJK Unified Ideographs 晍 → [U+664D]

Translingual

Han character

晌 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 日竹月口 (AHBR), four-corner 6702₀, composition ⿰日向)

1. noon, midday
2. moment
3. unit of land measurement equal to seven mou (畝), or the area that can be sown in one day
4. one mou (畝) equals approximately 1 are, or 100 sq. meters. Therefore, one shou (晌) should equal approximately 700 sq. meters

Derived characters

• 𭧯

References

• KangXi: page 495, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13903
• Dae Jaweon: page 860, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1508, character 9
• Unihan data for U+664C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		晌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
晌	*hljaŋʔ
餉	*hljaŋs
向	*hljaŋs, *hlaŋs
珦	*hljaŋs, *hlaŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǎng (shang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoeng²
• Min Nan (POJ): sióng / siáng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shǎng
    • Wade–Giles: shang³
    • Yale: shǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaang
    • Palladius: шан (šan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hoeng²
    • Yale: héung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoeng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hœːŋ³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sióng
    • Tâi-lô: sióng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siorng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáng
    • Tâi-lô: siáng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siarng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiaŋ⁵³/

Note: sióng/siáng - vernacular (俗).

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	晌
Reading #	1/1
No.	13656
Phonetic component	向
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	賞
Old Chinese	/*hljaŋʔ/
Notes	曏晚起字

Definitions

晌

1. noon; midday
2. daytime; half a day
3. moment; short period of time
4. A unit of land measurement.

Compounds

• 一晌
• 上半晌 (shàngbànshǎng)
• 下半晌 (xiàbànshǎng)
• 傍晌 (bàngshǎng)
• 前半晌 (qiánbànshǎng)
• 前晌 (qiánshǎng)
• 半晌 (bànshǎng)

• 早晌
• 晌午 (shǎngwu)
• 晌午歪
• 歇晌
• 片晌
• 後半晌／后半晌 (hòubànshǎng)

• 後晌／后晌 (hòushǎng)
• 晌覺／晌觉
• 晌飯／晌饭 (shǎngfàn)
• 睡晌覺／睡晌觉
• 過晌／过晌
• 頭晌／头晌

Japanese

Kanji

晌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
• Kun: まひる (mahiru)

Korean

Hanja

晌, eum 상 (sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

晌: Hán Nôm readings: thưởng

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References

• Nom Foundation