邛

邛	U+909B, 邛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-909B

← 邚
[U+909A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

邜 →
[U+909C]

Translingual

Han character

邛 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一弓中 (MNL), four-corner 1712₇, composition ⿰工⻏)

Derived characters

𪵹, 桏, 𦨰, 𨀯, 𦭭, 筇, 㧭, 𥞱, 𧊡

References

KangXi: page 1268, character 16
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39288
Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3755, character 2
Unihan data for U+909B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		邛
alternative forms		卭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
缸	kroːŋ, ɡroːŋ
篢	kluːmʔ, koːŋ
贑	*kluːmʔ
涳	ŋr'oːŋ, kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
江	*kroːŋ
肛	kroːŋ, qʰroːŋ
扛	*kroːŋ
杠	*kroːŋ
豇	*kroːŋ
茳	*kroːŋ
釭	kroːŋ, koːŋ, *kuːŋ
矼	*kroːŋ
玒	kroːŋ, koːŋ
虹	kroːŋs, koːŋs, *ɡoːŋ
腔	*kʰroːŋ
崆	kʰroːŋ, kʰoːŋ
羫	*kʰroːŋ
控	kʰroːŋ, kʰoːŋs
椌	kʰroːŋ, kʰoːŋ
悾	kʰroːŋ, kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
跫	kʰroːŋ, kʰoŋ, *ɡoŋ
啌	*qʰroːŋ
谾	qʰroːŋ, qʰoːŋ
舡	*qʰroːŋ
缻	*ɡroːŋ
項	*ɡroːŋʔ
屸	*ɡ·roːŋ
功	*koːŋ
工	*koːŋ
疘	*koːŋ
魟	koːŋ, qʰoːŋ, *ɡoːŋ
攻	koːŋ, kuːŋ
愩	*koːŋ
碽	*koːŋ
貢	*koːŋs
羾	*koːŋs
空	kʰoːŋ, kʰoːŋs
箜	*kʰoːŋ
硿	*kʰoːŋ
埪	*kʰoːŋ
鵼	*kʰoːŋ
倥	kʰoːŋ, kʰoːŋʔ, *kʰoːŋs
鞚	*kʰoːŋs
叿	*qʰoːŋ
嗊	*qʰoːŋʔ
訌	*ɡoːŋ
紅	*ɡoːŋ
仜	*ɡoːŋ
葒	*ɡoːŋ
渱	*ɡoːŋ
鴻	ɡoːŋ, ɡoːŋʔ
汞	*ɡoːŋʔ
澒	*ɡoːŋʔ
鞏	*koŋʔ
巩	*koŋʔ
銎	kʰoŋ, qʰoŋ
恐	kʰoŋʔ, kʰoŋs
蛩	*ɡoŋ
筇	*ɡoŋ
桏	*ɡoŋ
邛	*ɡoŋ

Etymology

“distress”: Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan གྱོང (gyong, “want, need, indigence”) (Schuessler, 2007). Possibly a variant of 窘 (OC *ɡrunʔ, “to be distressed”). Possibly further connected to 恐 (OC *kʰoŋʔ, “to fear”), 窮 (OC *ɡuŋ, “poor”) (ibid.). See these for more.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qióng (qiong²)
(Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kung⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qióng
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cyóng
  - Wade–Giles: chʻiung²
  - Yale: chyúng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyong
  - Palladius: цюн (cjun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰjʊŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: kung⁴
  - Yale: kùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: kung⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: /ɡɨoŋ/

Rime
Character	邛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guawŋ/
Li Rong	/ɡioŋ/
Wang Li	/ɡĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qióng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kung⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡoŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	邛
Reading #	1/1
No.	4076
Phonetic component	工
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蛩
Old Chinese	/*ɡoŋ/

Definitions

邛

(～州) (historical) Qiong Prefecture (a former prefecture of Sichuan, China)
(～縣) (historical) Qiong County (a former county in Sichuan, China during the Ming dynasty)
(historical) Qiong (a tribe in ancient China)
^† a mound
^† fatigue; sickness
^† distress
- 匪其止共、維王之邛。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  匪其止共、维王之邛。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Fěi qí zhǐ gòng, wéi wáng zhī qióng. [Pinyin]
  They do not discharge their duties, But only create distress to the king.
a surname

Compounds

邛州
邛杖

邛都
邛崍／邛崃 (Qiónglái)

邛崍山／邛崃山 (Qiónglái Shān)
邛縣／邛县

Japanese

Kanji

邛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): きょう (kyō), ぐ (gu)

Korean

Hanja

邛 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邛: Hán Nôm readings: cung

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References

Nom Foundation