娼

娼	U+5A3C, 娼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A3C

← 娻
[U+5A3B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

娽 →
[U+5A3D]

Translingual

Han character

娼 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女日日 (VAA), four-corner 4646₀, composition ⿰女昌)

References

KangXi: page 263, character 40

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6376

Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 27

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1057, character 15

Unihan data for U+5A3C

Chinese

trad.		娼
simp. ^#		娼
alternative forms		倡

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
昌	*tʰjaŋ
倡	tʰjaŋ, tʰjaŋs
猖	*tʰjaŋ
菖	*tʰjaŋ
閶	*tʰjaŋ
鯧	*tʰjaŋ
裮	*tʰjaŋ
琩	*tʰjaŋ
唱	*tʰjaŋs

Etymology

From 倡 (OC *tʰjaŋ, “performer”). Cognate with 唱 (OC *tʰjaŋs, “to sing”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chāng (chang¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhông
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chhiong / chhiang / chhang
(Teochew, Peng'im): ciang¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chang
  - Wade–Giles: chʻang¹
  - Yale: chāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chang
  - Palladius: чан (čan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: coeng¹
  - Yale: chēung
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêng¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰœːŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhông
  - Hakka Romanization System: cong´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cong¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiong
  - Tâi-lô: tshiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiofng
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiang
  - Tâi-lô: tshiang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiafng
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhang
  - Tâi-lô: tshang
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhafng
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ciang¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiang
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiaŋ³³/

Definitions

娼

prostitute
(historical) female performer of song and dance

Compounds

公娼
土娼
娼夫
娼妓 (chāngjì)
娼寮 (chāngliáo)
娼店

娼根
嫖娼 (piáochāng)
暗娼 (ànchāng)
私娼 (sīchāng)
倚門之娼／倚门之娼

娼優／娼优
娼婦／娼妇 (chāngfù)
男盜女娼／男盗女娼 (nándàonǚchāng)
迫良為娼／迫良为娼
逼良為娼／逼良为娼 (bīliángwéichāng)

Japanese

Kanji

娼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

prostitution

Readings

Go-on: しょう (shō)

Kan-on: しょう (shō)

Kun: あそびめ (asobime)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 娼. Recorded as Middle Korean 챠ᇰ (chyang) (Yale: chyang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰa̠ŋ]
Phonetic hangul: [창]

Hanja

Wikisource娼 (eumhun 창녀 창 (changnyeo chang))

Hanja form^? of 창 (“prostitute”).

Compounds

창녀 (娼女, changnyeo)
창부 (娼婦, changbu)
사창 (私娼, sachang)
가창 (街娼, gachang)
남창 (男娼, namchang)
공창제 (公娼制, gongchangje)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

娼: Hán Nôm readings: xướng

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