盍

See also: 盇

盍 U+76CD, 盍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76CD ← 盌 [U+76CC] CJK Unified Ideographs 盎 → [U+76CE]

Translingual

Han character

盍 (radical 108, 皿+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土戈月廿 (GIBT), four-corner 4010₇, composition ⿱去皿)

1. what? why not?

References

• KangXi: page 794, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22980
• Dae Jaweon: page 1209, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2559, character 4
• Unihan data for U+76CD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		盍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盍
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (盍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蓋	*kaːbs, *kaːb, *ɡaːb
盖	*kaːbs
溘	*kʰaːbs, *kʰoːb, *kʰaːb
搕	*qoːb
嗑	*kaːb, *ɡaːb
榼	*kʰaːb
磕	*kʰaːb, *kʰaːd
瞌	*kʰaːb
盍	*ɡaːb
闔	*ɡaːb
篕	*ɡaːb
熆	*ɡaːb
鰪	*qaːb
廅	*qaːb
圔	*qroːb
饁	*ɢrab

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé (he²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hap⁶
• Min Dong (BUC): hăk
• Min Nan (POJ): khah / a̍p

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ho²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hé
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hap⁶
    • Yale: hahp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hap⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: heb⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐp̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hăk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haʔ⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khah / a̍p
    • Tâi-lô: khah / a̍p
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qaq, ap
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰaʔ³²/, /ap̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰaʔ⁵/, /ap̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰaʔ³²/, /ap̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰaʔ³²/, /ap̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰaʔ³²/, /ap̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɑp̚/▼

Rime
Character	盍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	盍 (144)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡臘切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦap̚/
Li Rong	/ɣɑp̚/
Wang Li	/ɣɑp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-[k]ˤap/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé
Middle Chinese	‹ hap ›
Old Chinese	/*m-[k]ˁap/
English	thatch, cover (v.)
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	盍
Reading #	1/1
No.	5080
Phonetic component	盍
Rime group	盍
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	盍
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːb/

Definitions

盍

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Compounds

• 昌盍

• 盍簪

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Japanese

Kanji

盍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. come together
2. congregate
3. meet
4. cover

Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō)^{←がふ (gafu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かふ (kafu, historical)}
• Kun: おおう (oou, 盍う); なんぞ (nanzo, 盍ぞ)

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Korean

Hanja

盍 • (hap) (hangeul 합)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盍 (hạp, khạp)

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