See also:
U+8944, 襄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8944

[U+8943]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8945]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 145, +11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜口口女 (YRRV), four-corner 00732, composition 𠀎𧘇)

Derived characters edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1123, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34556
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1591, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3109, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8944

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
alternative forms
to accomplish

Glyph origin edit

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *snaŋ): phonetic 𤕦 () + semantic (Li Xueqin, 2012).

Etymology edit

“to remove”
From *s- (causative) + (OC *naŋ, “to steal; to expel”) (Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014).

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter sjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/siɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/siaŋ/
Wang
Li
/sĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
soeng1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiāng xiāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjang › ‹ sjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-naŋ/ /*s-naŋ/
English remove Xiāng (personal name)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13620
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*snaŋ/
Notes

Definitions edit

  1. (literary) to aid; to help; to assist
  2. (literary) to accomplish; to achieve; to complete
  3. (literary) to remove
  4. (literary) to raise up; to ascend over
  5. (literary) tall; high
  6. Alternative form of (xiāng)
  7. Alternative form of
  8. a surname

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. To rise; raise

Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(eumhun 도울 (doul yang))

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: tương

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