薌

薌

See also: 芗

薌 U+858C, 薌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-858C ← 薋 [U+858B] CJK Unified Ideographs 薍 → [U+858D]

Translingual

Han character

薌 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿女竹中 (TVHL), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹鄉)

1. fragrant smell of grain
2. aromatic

References

• KangXi: page 1060, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32100
• Dae Jaweon: page 1524, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3287, character 1
• Unihan data for U+858C

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Chinese

trad.		薌
simp.		芗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 薌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
曏	*qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
鄉	*qʰaŋ
薌	*qʰaŋ
膷	*qʰaŋ
響	*qʰaŋʔ
饗	*qʰaŋʔ
蠁	*qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
嚮	*qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
卿	*kʰraŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāng (xiang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoeng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siang
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang¹
    • Yale: syāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiang
    • Palladius: сян (sjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hoeng¹
    • Yale: hēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hœːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /hɨɐŋ/

Rime
Character	薌
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hoeng1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	薌
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	薌
Reading #	1/1
No.	13597
Phonetic component	鄉
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	香
Old Chinese	/*qʰaŋ/

Definitions

薌

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Compounds

薌劇／芗剧 (xiāngjù)

薌澤／芗泽

薌萁／芗萁

References

• “薌”, 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

薌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō), こう (kō)
• Kun: こくもつ (kokumotsu)

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Korean

Hanja

薌 • (hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune–Reischauer hyang, Yale hyang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薌: Hán Nôm readings: hương

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