饗

饗

See also: 飨

饗 U+9957, 饗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9957 ← 饖 [U+9956] CJK Unified Ideographs 饘 → [U+9958]

Translingual

Han character

饗 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+13, 22 strokes, cangjie input 女中人戈女 (VLOIV), four-corner 2773₂, composition ⿱鄕食)

1. host banquet
2. banquet

References

• KangXi: page 1426, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44431
• Dae Jaweon: page 1952, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4471, character 14
• Unihan data for U+9957

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Chinese

trad.		饗
simp.		飨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 饗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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): xiǎng (xiang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoeng²
• Min Nan (POJ): hióng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎng
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang³
    • Yale: syǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheang
    • Palladius: сян (sjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hoeng²
    • Yale: héung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoeng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hœːŋ³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hióng
    • Tâi-lô: hióng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiorng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɔŋ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /hɨɐŋ^X/

Rime
Character	饗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨɐŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/hiɐŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/xiɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɨaŋX/
Li Rong	/xiaŋX/
Wang Li	/xĭaŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯aŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiǎng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hoeng2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰaŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰaŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	饗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎng
Middle Chinese	‹ xjangX ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰaŋʔ/
English	feast
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	饗
Reading #	1/1
No.	13600
Phonetic component	鄉
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	響
Old Chinese	/*qʰaŋʔ/
Notes	鄉轉註字

Definitions

饗

1. banquet feast
2. to entertain with food and drink

   以饗讀者／以飨读者  ―  yǐ xiǎng dúzhě  ―  for the readers' enjoyment

Compounds

伏維尚饗／伏维尚飨 告饗／告飨 大饗／大飨 宴饗／宴飨 尚饗／尚飨 (shàngxiǎng)

息饗／息飨 椎牛饗士／椎牛飨士 配饗／配飨 饕饗／饕飨

饗告／飨告 饗國／飨国 饗宴／飨宴 (xiǎngyàn) 饗薦／飨荐

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Japanese

Kanji

饗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. banquet

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: もてなす (motenasu, 饗す); あえ (ae, 饗); うける (ukeru, 饗ける)

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Korean

Hanja

饗 (eum 향 (hyang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

饗: Hán Nôm readings: hưởng

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