煢

See also: 茕 and 焭

煢 U+7162, 煢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7162 ← 煡 [U+7161] CJK Unified Ideographs 煣 → [U+7163]

Translingual

Han character

煢 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火火月弓十 (FFBNJ), four-corner 9941₇, composition ⿱𤇾卂(GHTJ) or ⿱𤇾⿹⺄𠂇(K))

Derived characters

• 𠎽, 𢶇, 𦽓

References

• KangXi: page 677, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19217
• Dae Jaweon: page 1088, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2219, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7162

Chinese

trad.		煢
simp.		茕
alternative forms		𠙦／䒮 焭 㷀

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
鶯	*qreːŋ
罃	*qreːŋ
嫈	*qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ
褮	*qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ
覮	*pqʰʷeːŋ
謍	*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ
䁝	*qʷraːŋʔ
嶸	*ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ
嵤	*ɢʷreːŋ
榮	*ɢʷreŋ
瑩	*ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs
蠑	*ɢʷreŋ
禜	*ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs
醟	*ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs
檾	*kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
煢	*ɡʷeŋ
焭	*ɡʷeŋ
縈	*qʷeŋ
營	*ɢʷeŋ
鎣	*ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs
塋	*ɢʷeŋ
濴	*ɢʷeŋ
熒	*ɡʷeːŋ
螢	*ɡʷeːŋ
滎	*ɡʷeːŋ
濙	*qʷeːŋʔ
瀅	*qʷeːŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qióng (qiong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): king⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): khêng

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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/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khêng
    • Tâi-lô: khîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qeeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɪŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡwiᴇŋ/

Rime
Character	煢
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	煢
Reading #	1/1
No.	15373
Phonetic component	熒
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	瓊
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷeŋ/

Definitions

煢

1. (literary) alone; solitary; desolate

   alt. forms: 𠎽, 㒌 (qióng), 𠌻, 𡦃, 嬛, 㝁 (xuān), 惸 (qióng), 𡞦

2. (obsolete) dice

   alt. forms: 𣜧, 橩, 𢶇, 瓊／琼

Compounds

• 煢孑／茕孑
• 煢居／茕居

• 煢煢／茕茕 (qióngqióng)
• 煢煢孑立／茕茕孑立 (qióngqióngjiélì)

• 煢獨／茕独

Japanese

Kanji

煢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)
• Kan-on: けい (kei)
• Kun: ひとりもの (hitorimono)

Korean

Hanja

煢 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

煢: Hán Nôm readings: quỳnh

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