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枉

枉 U+6789, 枉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6789
← 枈
[U+6788] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 枊 →
[U+678A]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

枉 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木一土 (DMG), four-corner 41914, composition ⿰木王)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 514, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14530
  • Dae Jaweon: page 902, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1163, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6789

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
 枉
alternative forms 抂
𣒈

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (往) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
暀 *ɢʷaŋs, *ɢʷaŋʔ, *ɢʷaŋs
誑 *kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
枉 *qʷaŋʔ
往 *ɢʷaŋ

Etymology edit

Related to 紆 (OC) ~ 迂 (OC *qʷa), 匡 (OC *kʰʷaŋ), 腕 (OC *qoːns), 冤 (OC *qon) (Schuessler, 2007). See 迂 (yū) for further etymology.

Pronunciation edit

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 枉
Mandarin Beijing /uɑŋ²¹⁴/
Harbin /uaŋ⁵³/
/uaŋ²¹³/
Tianjin /vɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /vaŋ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /vaŋ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uaŋ⁵³/
Xi'an /uaŋ⁵³/
Xining /uɔ̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /vɑŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /vɑ̃⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /vɑŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /uaŋ⁴²/
Chengdu /uaŋ⁵³/
Guiyang /uaŋ⁴²/
Kunming /uã̠/
Nanjing /uaŋ²¹²/
Hefei /uɑ̃²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /vɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /uɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /vɑ̃⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /uɑ̃³⁵/
Suzhou /uɑ̃⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ʔuɑŋ⁵³/
Wenzhou /j̠yɔ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /o³⁵/
Tunxi /au³¹/
Xiang Changsha /uan⁴¹/
Xiangtan /uɔn⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /uɔŋ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /voŋ³¹/
Taoyuan /voŋ³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɔŋ³⁵/
Nanning /wɔŋ³⁵/
Hong Kong /wɔŋ³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ɔŋ⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /uoŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /uaŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /uaŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /uaŋ²¹³/
Rime
Character 枉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 紆往切
Baxter 'jwangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔʉɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔʷiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiuɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔuaŋX/
Li
Rong 		/ʔiuaŋX/
Wang
Li 		/ĭwaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔiwaŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wǎng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wong2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 枉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wǎng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔjwangX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʷaŋʔ/
English crooked; depraved

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 枉
Reading # 1/1
No. 12759
Phonetic
component 		往
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		枉
Old
Chinese 		/*qʷaŋʔ/

Definitions edit

枉

  1. bent; crooked
  2. depraved; indecent; perverse
  3. to distort; to twist; to bend
  4. unjust; wrong
  5. injustice
  6. (literary) to condescend; to deign
  7. in vain; to no avail; for naught
  8. (Hong Kong Cantonese, triad slang) three
    alt. forms: 汪

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

枉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

枉 • (wang) (hangeul 왕, revised wang, McCune–Reischauer wang, Yale wang)

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Tày edit

Han character edit

枉 (transliteration needed)

  1. Nôm form of vường.

References edit

  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[1] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

枉: Hán Nôm readings: uổng

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