絳

絳

See also: 绛

絳 U+7D73, 絳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D73 ← 絲 [U+7D72] CJK Unified Ideographs 絴 → [U+7D74]

Translingual

Han character

絳 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹水手 (VFHEQ), four-corner 2795₄, composition ⿰糹夅)

1. crimson, a kind of deep red
2. river in Shanxi province

References

• KangXi: page 924, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27449
• Dae Jaweon: page 1359, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3395, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7D73

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Chinese

trad.		絳
simp.		绛

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
贛	*kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms
灨	*kluːmʔ, *kluːms
竷	*kʰluːms
戇	*kr'oːms, *qʰloːms
洚	*kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ, *ɡloːŋ, *ɡluːŋ
降	*kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ
絳	*kruːŋs
栙	*ɡruːŋ
夅	*ɡruːŋ
跭	*ɡruːŋ
隆	*ɡ·ruːŋ
癃	*ɡ·ruːŋ
窿	*ɡ·ruːŋ
霳	*ɡ·ruːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kruːŋs) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 夅 (OC *ɡruːŋ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàng (jiang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong³
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): kàng / kòng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gang³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiàng
    • Wade–Giles: chiang⁴
    • Yale: jyàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jianq
    • Palladius: цзян (czjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gong³
    • Yale: gong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kàng / kòng
    • Tâi-lô: kàng / kòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kaxng, koxng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kaŋ²¹/, /kɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kaŋ⁴¹/, /kɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaŋ²¹/, /kɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ¹¹/, /kɔŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kaŋ²¹/, /kɔŋ²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gang³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaŋ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠʌŋ^H/

Rime
Character	絳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古巷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠʌŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚɔŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɔŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨwŋH/
Li Rong	/kɔŋH/
Wang Li	/kɔŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɔŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gong3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kruːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	絳
Reading #	1/1
No.	6280
Phonetic component	夅
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	絳
Old Chinese	/*kruːŋs/

Definitions

絳

1. crimson (a kind of deep red)

Compounds

新絳／新绛 (Xīnjiàng) 絳州／绛州 (Jiàngzhōu)

絳帳／绛帐 (Jiàngzhàng) 絳帳／绛帐 (Jiàngzhàng)

絳河／绛河 (jiànghé) 絳脣／绛唇 (jiàngchún)

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Japanese

Kanji

絳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: あか (aka)

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Korean

Hanja

絳 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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