軭

軭 U+8EED, 軭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EED ← 軬 [U+8EEC] CJK Unified Ideographs 軮 → [U+8EEE]

Translingual

Han character

軭 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 十十尸一土 (JJSMG), composition ⿰車匡)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1241, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38284
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3526, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8EED

Chinese

simp. and trad.		軭
alternative forms		彎／弯 Cantonese 𢺯 round Cantonese, nonstandard

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
皇	*ɡʷaːŋ
惶	*ɡʷaːŋ
遑	*ɡʷaːŋ
堭	*ɡʷaːŋ
煌	*ɡʷaːŋ
餭	*ɡʷaːŋ
騜	*ɡʷaːŋ
艎	*ɡʷaːŋ
隍	*ɡʷaːŋ
湟	*ɡʷaːŋ
徨	*ɡʷaːŋ
篁	*ɡʷaːŋ
蝗	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs
凰	*ɡʷaːŋ
偟	*ɡʷaːŋ
媓	*ɡʷaːŋ
韹	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
葟	*ɡʷaːŋ
皝	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
汪	*qʷaːŋ, *qʷaːŋs, *qʷaŋʔ
尪	*qʷaːŋ
迋	*kʷaŋʔ, *kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
逛	*kʷaŋʔ
誑	*kʷaŋs, *ɡʷaŋ, *kʷaŋs
匡	*kʰʷaŋ
筐	*kʰʷaŋ
框	*kʰʷaŋ
眶	*kʰʷaŋ
誆	*kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
邼	*kʰʷaŋ
恇	*kʰʷaŋ
劻	*kʰʷaŋ
洭	*kʰʷaŋ
軭	*kʰʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋ
狂	*ɡʷaŋ, *ɡʷaŋs
軖	*ɡʷaŋ
鵟	*ɡʷaŋ
俇	*ɡʷaŋʔ
王	*ɢʷaŋ, *ɢʷaŋs
蚟	*ɢʷaŋ
彺	*ɢʷaŋ
旺	*ɢʷaŋs
諻	*qʰʷraːŋ
喤	*qʰʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋ
瑝	*ɡʷraːŋ
鍠	*ɡʷraːŋ
揘	*ɡʷaŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuāng (kuang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuang
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuang¹
    • Yale: kwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuang
    • Palladius: куан (kuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waang¹
    • Yale: wāang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wang¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khjwang, gjwang

Rime
Character	軭	軭
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	陽 (106)	陽 (106)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	去王切	巨王切
Baxter	khjwang	gjwang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰʉɐŋ/	/ɡʉɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷiɐŋ/	/ɡʷiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiuɑŋ/	/ɡiuɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰuaŋ/	/guaŋ/
Li Rong	/kʰiuaŋ/	/ɡiuaŋ/
Wang Li	/kʰĭwaŋ/	/ɡĭwaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰiwaŋ/	/giwaŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuāng	kuáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fong1	kwong4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷaŋ/, /*ɡʷaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	軭	軭
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12730	12734
Phonetic component	王	王
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	匡	狂
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷaŋ/	/*ɡʷaŋ/

Definitions

軭

1. (Cantonese) to fail; to malfunction

   部電腦軭咗。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   部电脑軭咗。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   bou⁶ din⁶ nou⁵ waang¹ zo². [Jyutping]

   the computer failed to work.

2. (Cantonese) failingly

Derived terms

• 搞軭

 

Japanese

Kanji

軭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō); ごう (gō)
• Kun: とどこおる (todokōru)