猖

猖

猖 U+7316, 猖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7316 ← 猕 [U+7315] CJK Unified Ideographs 猗 → [U+7317]

Translingual

Han character

猖 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大竹日日 (KHAA), four-corner 4626₀, composition ⿰犭昌)

1. mad, wild, reckless, unruly

Derived characters

• 𮐫

References

• KangXi: page 713, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20490
• Dae Jaweon: page 1125, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1353, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7316

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		猖

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰjaŋ) : semantic 犭 (“dog”) + phonetic 昌 (OC *tʰjaŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chāng (chang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹

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• 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/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/

Rime
Character	猖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尺良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiaŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	猖
Reading #	1/1
No.	1251
Phonetic component	昌
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	昌
Old Chinese	/*tʰjaŋ/

Definitions

猖

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Compounds

狓猖 猖披 (chāngpī)

猖狂 (chāngkuáng) 猖猖狂狂

猖獗 (chāngjué) 猖亂／猖乱

References

• “猖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

猖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: くるう (kuruu, 猖う)

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Korean

Hanja

猖 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

猖: Hán Nôm readings: xương

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