庚

庚

庚 U+5E9A, 庚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E9A ← 庙 [U+5E99] CJK Unified Ideographs 庛 → [U+5E9B]

Translingual

Han character

庚 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 戈中人 (ILO), four-corner 0023₇, composition ⿸广⿻コ大)

Derived characters

• 唐

See also

• 康

References

• KangXi: page 344, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9278
• Dae Jaweon: page 654, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 879, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5E9A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		庚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 庚
Shang	Western Zhou
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions

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

	Old Chinese
唐	*ɡl'aːŋ
煻	*l'aːŋ
糖	*l'aːŋ
搪	*l'aːŋ
蓎	*l'aːŋ
瑭	*l'aːŋ
餹	*l'aːŋ
篖	*l'aːŋ
螗	*l'aːŋ
塘	*l'aːŋ
鶶	*l'aːŋ
赯	*l'aːŋ
磄	*l'aːŋ
溏	*l'aːŋ
傏	*l'aːŋ
鎕	*l'aːŋ
榶	*l'aːŋ
嵣	*l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚	*kraːŋ
賡	*kraːŋ
鹒	*kraːŋ
康	*kʰlaːŋ
穅	*kʰlaːŋ
糠	*kʰlaːŋ
槺	*kʰlaːŋ
漮	*kʰlaːŋ
躿	*kʰlaːŋ
慷	*kʰlaːŋʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a flail and a threshing device.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): gēng (geng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄥ

  (Chengdu, SP): gen¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gang¹
• Gan (Wiktionary): gien¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): kâng

  (Meixian, Guangdong): gang¹

• Jin (Wiktionary): geng¹
• Min Dong (BUC): gĕng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): keⁿ / kiⁿ / keng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gên¹

• Wu (Wiktionary): kan (T1)
• Xiang (Wiktionary): gen¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: geng
    • Wade–Giles: kêng¹
    • Yale: gēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geng
    • Palladius: гэн (gɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: gen¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: gen
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gang¹
    • Yale: gāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: geng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐŋ⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: gien¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiɛn⁴²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kâng
    • Hakka Romanization System: gang´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gang¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kaŋ²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: gang¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kaŋ⁴⁴/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: geng¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /kə̃ŋ¹¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gĕng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛiŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: keⁿ / kiⁿ / keng
    • Tâi-lô: kenn / kinn / keng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kvef, kvy, kefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kẽ⁴⁴/, /kĩ⁴⁴/, /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kẽ³³/, /kĩ³³/, /kiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɛ̃⁴⁴/, /kĩ⁴⁴/, /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kẽ⁴⁴/, /kĩ⁴⁴/, /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kẽ⁴⁴/, /kĩ⁴⁴/, /kiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Note: keⁿ, kiⁿ - vernacular, keng - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gên¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: keⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kẽ³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: kan (T1)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kã⁵³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: gen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kən³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠæŋ/

Rime
Character	庚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古行切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/kɐŋ/
Wang Li	/kɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gang1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤraŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gēng
Middle Chinese	‹ kæng ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁraŋ/
English	7th heavenly stem
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	庚
Reading #	1/1
No.	3978
Phonetic component	庚
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	庚
Old Chinese	/*kraːŋ/

Definitions

庚

1. age
2. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems
3. a surname

Coordinate terms

• (heavenly stems) 天干; 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 ^{(Category: zh:Heavenly stems)}

Compounds

同庚 (tónggēng) 呼庚呼癸 守庚申 定庚 尊庚 (zūngēng) 年庚 庚信

庚子之役 庚帖 (gēngtiě) 庚癸 庚癸之呼 庚辛 武庚

倉庚／仓庚 庚子拳亂／庚子拳乱 庚子賠款／庚子赔款 庚郵／庚邮 貴庚／贵庚 (guìgēng) 長庚／长庚 (chánggēng)

Descendants

• → Zhuang: geng

References

• “Entry #3886”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

庚

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: かのえ (kanoe, 庚)
• Nanori: かのえ (kanoe); き (ki); みち (michi); やす (yasu)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
庚
こう Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 庚 (kæng).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• (Tokyo) こ​ー [kóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ko̞ː]

• Homophones: 鸛, 公, 爻, 功, 巧, 甲, 交, 行, 劫, 孝, 更, 抗, 効, 幸, 侯, 紅, 香, 候, 校, 貢, 項, 項, 綱, 稿, 蝗, 蝗, 薨, 講, 恋う, 請う, 乞う, 恍, 皎, 斯う

Proper noun

庚(こう) • (Kō) 

1. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
庚
かのえ Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

金 (Ka, “Metal”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) かのえ [kànóé] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠no̞e̞]

Proper noun

庚(かのえ) • (Kanoe) 

1. the seventh of the ten heavenly stems

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Korean

Hanja

庚 (eumhun 별 경 (byeol gyeong))

1. Hanja form^? of 경 (“star”).

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Vietnamese

Han character

庚: Hán Nôm readings: canh

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