U+8EAC, 躬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EAC

[U+8EAB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8EAD]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 158, +3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹弓 (HHN), four-corner 27227, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1237, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38038
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1710, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3808, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8EAC

Chinese edit

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kuŋ): semantic (body) + phonetic (OC *kʷɯŋ).

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *guŋ (body, back). Compare Burmese အကောင် (a.kaung, body).

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter kjuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kuwŋ/
Li
Rong
/kiuŋ/
Wang
Li
/kĭuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gung1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjuwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*k(r)uŋ/
English body, person

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. 4141
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kuŋ/
Notes

Definitions edit

  1. body
      ―  gōng  ―  to bow (literally, “to bend one’s body”)
  2. oneself
  3. in person; personally
  4. to stoop

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. body
  2. self

Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(gung) (hangeul , revised gung, McCune–Reischauer kung, Yale kwung)

  1. body
  2. personally, in person

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: cung, còng

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