癰

See also: 痈

癰 U+7670, 癰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7670 ← 癯 [U+766F] CJK Unified Ideographs 癱 → [U+7671]

Translingual

Han character

癰 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+18, 23 strokes, cangjie input 大女山土 (KVUG), four-corner 0011₄, composition ⿸疒雝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 783, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22638
• Dae Jaweon: page 1192, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2704, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7670

Chinese

trad.		癰
simp.		痈
alternative forms		癕 㿈

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
郺	*qoːŋʔ, *qoŋ
齆	*qoːŋs
甕	*qoːŋs
罋	*qoːŋs, *qoŋ
雍	*qoŋ, *qoŋs
邕	*qoŋ
嗈	*qoŋ
灉	*qoŋ, *qoŋs
癰	*qoŋ
廱	*qoŋ
雝	*qoŋ
壅	*qoŋ, *qoŋʔ, *qoŋs
饔	*qoŋ
噰	*qoŋ
澭	*qoŋ
擁	*qoŋ, *qoŋʔ
臃	*qoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoŋ) : semantic 疒 (“disease”) + phonetic 雝 (OC *qoŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yōng (yong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jung¹ / jung²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): eng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yong
    • Wade–Giles: yung¹
    • Yale: yūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iong
    • Palladius: юн (jun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jung¹ / jung²
    • Yale: yūng / yúng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jung¹ / jung²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yung¹ / yung²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊŋ⁵⁵/, /jʊŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eng
    • Tâi-lô: ing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: efng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jowng

Rime
Character	癰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於容切
Baxter	'jowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔuawŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔioŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*q(r)oŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	癰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yōng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjowng ›
Old Chinese	/*q(r)oŋ/
English	ulcer
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	癰
Reading #	1/1
No.	15408
Phonetic component	邕
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	邕
Old Chinese	/*qoŋ/

Definitions

癰

1. carbuncle; sore; ulcer; abscess

Compounds

• 吮癰舐痔／吮痈舐痔
• 徙癰／徙痈
• 懸癰／悬痈
• 決癰潰疽／决痈溃疽
• 潰癰／溃痈 (kuìyōng)
• 癰疽／痈疽 (yōngjū)
• 癰腫／痈肿
• 砍頭癰／砍头痈
• 腸癰／肠痈
• 舐癰吮痔／舐痈吮痔
• 養癰成患／养痈成患
• 養癰自患／养痈自患
• 養癰貽害／养痈贻害
• 養癰貽患／养痈贻患
• 養癰遺患／养痈遗患

 

References

• “癰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

癰

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. carbuncle
2. boil

Readings

• Go-on: ゆう (yū)
• Kan-on: よう (yō)
• Kun: はれもの (haremono, 癰)

Noun

癰(よう) • (yō) 

1. carbuncle, large abscess

Korean

Hanja

癰 • (yong) (hangeul 용, revised yong, McCune–Reischauer yong, Yale yong)

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