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香

Regular Style CJKV Radical 186 (0).svg
香 U+9999, 香
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9999
← 馘
[U+9998]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 馚 →
[U+999A]

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

 
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Radical 186 香

香 (radical 186 香+0, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木日 (HDA), four-corner 20609, composition ⿱禾日)

  1. Kangxi radical #186, ⾹.

Derived glyphsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 1428, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44518
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1955, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4423, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9999

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 香

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 香
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
       
Characters in the same phonetic series (香) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
香 *qʰaŋ
萫 *qʰaŋs

In the oracle bone script, it was ideogrammic compound (會意): 黍 (“glutinous millet”) + 口 (“mouth”).

In the seal script, the 口 was replaced with the related 甘 (“sweet”).

Currently, the 黍 has simplified into 禾, and the form of the bottom component 甘 has become akin to the unrelated 曰 or 日.

PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • hiuⁿ/hioⁿ - vernacular;
  • hiong/hiang - literary (hiang - limited in mainstream Taiwanese, e.g. 香油, 五香).
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 香
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕiaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕiɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /ɕiaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕiaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ɕiaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕiaŋ²¹/
Xining /ɕiɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕiɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕiɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /ɕiɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕiaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ɕiaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕiaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕiã̠/
Nanjing /ɕiaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ɕiɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ɕiɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕiã⁵³/
Suzhou /ɕiã⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ɕiɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /ɕi³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕia³¹/
Tunxi /ɕiau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕian³³/
Xiangtan /sian³³/
Gan Nanchang /ɕiɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /hioŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /hioŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hœŋ⁵³/
Nanning /hœŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /hœŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hiɔŋ⁵⁵/
/hiũ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hyoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xiɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hiaŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hiaŋ²³/
/hio²³/
Rime
Character 香
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /xiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /xĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 香
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋ/
English fragrance

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 香
Reading # 1/1
No. 13591
Phonetic
component		 香
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 香
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaŋ/

DefinitionsEdit

香

  1. fragrant; fragrance
    Antonyms: 臭 (chòu)
  2. (of food) aromatic; delicious-smelling
  3. (of eating) enjoyable; (of sleep) sound
  4. popular
  5. perfume
  6. (religion) joss stick; incense (Classifier: 束 m; 支)
  7. (figuratively) woman
  8. to kiss
  9. (Cantonese, euphemistic) to die

SynonymsEdit

Dialectal synonyms of 香 (“fragrant”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 香
Mandarin Beijing 香
Taiwan 香
Jinan 香
Xi'an 香
Wuhan 香
Chengdu 香
Yangzhou 香
Hefei 香
Cantonese Guangzhou 香
Hong Kong 香
Taishan 香
Yangjiang 香
Gan Nanchang 香
Hakka Meixian 香
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 香
Liudui (S. Sixian) 香
Hsinchu (Hailu) 香
Dongshi (Dabu) 香
Zhuolan (Raoping) 香
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 香
Jin Taiyuan 香
Min Bei Jian'ou 香
Min Dong Fuzhou 香
Min Nan Xiamen 芳
Quanzhou 芳
Zhangzhou 芳
Taipei 芳
Philippines (Manila) 芳
Chaozhou 芳
Shantou 芳
Wu Suzhou 香
Wenzhou 香
Xiang Changsha 香
Shuangfeng 香

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 香

JapaneseEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

香 • (hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang, Yale hyang)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

香 (hương, nhang, hồng)

  1. incense
  2. fragrance
  3. odour
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