長庚

長庚

Chinese

		long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop	7th heavenly stem; age
trad. (長庚)		長	庚
simp. (长庚)		长	庚
alternative forms		長賡／长赓 長更／长更

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chánggēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ ㄍㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng⁴ gang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chánggēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ ㄍㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chánggeng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang²-kêng¹
    • Yale: cháng-gēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: charnggeng
    • Palladius: чангэн (čangɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ kɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng⁴ gang¹
    • Yale: chèuhng gāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng⁴ gang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng⁴ geng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰœːŋ²¹ kɐŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖɨɐŋ  kˠæŋ/

Rime
Character	長	庚
Reading #	1/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	直良切	古行切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨɐŋ/	/kˠæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiɐŋ/	/kᵚaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɑŋ/	/kaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖɨaŋ/	/kaɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/ȡiaŋ/	/kɐŋ/
Wang Li	/ȡĭaŋ/	/kɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯aŋ/	/kɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cháng	gēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng4	gang1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə-[N]-traŋ  kˤraŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daŋ  kraːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	長	庚
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cháng	gēng
Middle Chinese	‹ drjang ›	‹ kæng ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə-[N]-traŋ/	/*kˁraŋ/
English	long (adj.)	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	長	庚
Reading #	2/3	1/1
No.	1276	3978
Phonetic component	長	庚
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	長	庚
Old Chinese	/*daŋ/	/*kraːŋ/

Noun

長庚

1. (～星) (Chinese astronomy) planet Venus in the west after dusk

   • 東有啟明，西有長庚。有捄天畢，載施之行。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     东有启明，西有长庚。有捄天毕，载施之行。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Dōng yǒu qǐmíng, xī yǒu chánggēng. Yǒu qiú tiānbì, zài shī zhī xíng. [Pinyin]

     In the east there is Lucifer;
     In the west there is Hesperus;
     Long and curved is the Rabbit Net of the sky; -
     But they only occupy their places.

2. (literary, Chinese astronomy) Alternative name for 彗星 (huìxīng, “comet”).

Derived terms

夢協長庚／梦协长庚 夢叶長庚／梦叶长庚 長庚入夢／长庚入梦 長庚協夢／长庚协梦 長庚叶夢／长庚叶梦

長庚夢／长庚梦 長庚星／长庚星 長庚李／长庚李 長庚白／长庚白

Proper noun

長庚

1. (～里) An urban village in Tamsui district, New Taipei, Taiwan