坰

坰	U+5770, 坰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5770

← 坯
[U+576F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

坱 →
[U+5771]

Translingual

Han character

坰 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土月口 (GBR), four-corner 4712₀, composition ⿰土冋)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 226, character 29
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4985
Dae Jaweon: page 462, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 432, character 3
Unihan data for U+5770

Chinese

simp. and trad.		坰
alternative forms		冂冋 ancient 埛

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
苘	kʰʷeŋʔ, kʰʷeːŋʔ
詗	qʰʷeŋs, qʰʷeːŋʔ
駉	*kʷeːŋ
坰	*kʷeːŋ
冋	kʷeːŋ, ɡʷeːŋʔ
絅	kʷeːŋ, kʰʷeːŋʔ
扃	*kʷeːŋ
炯	kʷeːŋʔ, ɡʷeːŋʔ
迥	*ɡʷeːŋʔ
泂	*ɡʷeːŋʔ

Character composed by the radical of the earth (土) and 冋 as a phonetical component; the latter component also points to the concept of "territory, area".

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiōng (jiong¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwing¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jiōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyong
  - Wade–Giles: chiung¹
  - Yale: jyūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiong
  - Palladius: цзюн (czjun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gwing¹
  - Yale: gwīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwing¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: guing¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɪŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: kweng

Rime
Character	坰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	青 (126)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古螢切
Baxter	kweng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kweŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷeŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/kueŋ/
Wang Li	/kiweŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiweŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwing¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤeŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	坰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiōng
Middle Chinese	‹ kweng ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁeŋ/
English	region distant from capital
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	坰
Reading #	1/1
No.	6897
Phonetic component	冋
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	扃
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːŋ/

Definitions

坰

alternative form of 冂 (jiōng, “city outskirts”)

Compounds

坰牧
坰野
郊坰 (jiāojiōng)

Japanese

Kanji

坰

(Hyōgai kanji)

wilds

Readings

On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)

Korean

Hanja

坰 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng)

Vietnamese

Han character

坰: Hán Nôm readings: quynh

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References

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