See also:
U+5DF7, 巷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DF7

[U+5DF6]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5DF8]

Translingual

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

(Kangxi radical 49, 己+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿金口山 (TCRU), four-corner 44717, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 327, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8756
  • Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 986, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5DF7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𨞠
𨜕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡroːŋs): phonetic (OC *kloŋ, *ɡloŋs) + semantic (oneself)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *grwaŋ (village; crossroads) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan གྲོང (grong, house; village; town). Old Khmer កុរុង (kuruṅ, to rule; ruler; king) (whence Khmer ក្រុង (krong) and Thai กรุง (grung)) is probably unrelated (Schuessler, 2007).

Wu (lon, “alley”) and Jin 黑浪 (heh4 lon2, “hutong”) are dialectal variants which support the Old Chinese *gr- initial cluster of (OC *ɡroːŋs) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare also 衚衕胡同 (hútòng, “hutong”).

Pronunciation


Note: hàng - only used in 巷道 (Mainland standard).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ɕiɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /ɕiaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /ɕiɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /ɕiaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /ɕiaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ɕiaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /xaŋ²¹/ ~子
/xaŋ⁴⁴/ 地名
Xining /xɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /xɑŋ¹³/
/ɕiɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /xɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /xɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /xaŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /xaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /xaŋ²¹³/
/ɕiaŋ/
Kunming /xã̠¹/
Nanjing /ɕiaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /ɕiɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ɕiɑŋ³⁵/
/xuə³⁵/ 巷子
Hohhot /xɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /ɦɑ̃³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦiɑŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦuɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /xa²²/
Tunxi /xau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /xan⁵⁵/
/xan¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɦɔn²¹/
Gan Nanchang /hɔŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /hoŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /hoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔŋ²²/
Nanning /hɔŋ³⁵/
Hong Kong /hɔŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /haŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hɔyŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /haŋ³¹/
Haikou (Hainanese) /haŋ³⁵/
/ho²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (9)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter haewngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠʌŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦᵚɔŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɔŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦaɨwŋH/
Li
Rong
/ɣɔŋH/
Wang
Li
/ɣɔŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣɔŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hong6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiàng
Middle
Chinese
‹ hæwngH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.[ɡ]ˁroŋ-s/
English lane, street

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4151
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡroːŋs/

Definitions

  1. alley; lane; tunnel

Synonyms

Compounds

  • 一街兩巷 / 一街两巷
  • 三街六巷
  • 倒街臥巷 / 倒街卧巷
  • 僻巷 (pìxiàng)
  • 冷巷 (lěngxiàng)
  • 前街後巷 / 前街后巷
  • 周巷 (Zhōuxiàng)
  • 唐巷 (Tángxiàng)
  • 填街塞巷
  • 大街小巷 (dàjiēxiǎoxiàng)
  • 委巷
  • 姜巷 (Jiāngxiàng)
  • 家巷
  • 屯街塞巷
  • 巷仔 (hāng-á)
  • 巷伯
  • 巷口 (xiàngkǒu)
  • 巷哭
  • 巷子 (xiàngzi)
  • 巷尾街頭 / 巷尾街头
  • 巷弄 (xiànglòng)
  • 巷戰 / 巷战 (xiàngzhàn)
  • 巷歌
  • 巷祭
  • 巷職 / 巷职
  • 巷議 / 巷议
  • 巷議街談 / 巷议街谈
  • 巷議街譚 / 巷议街谭
  • 巷道
  • 巷陌 (xiàngmò)
  • 平康巷
  • 張巷 / 张巷 (Zhāngxiàng)
  • 後巷前街 / 后巷前街
  • 打街罵巷 / 打街骂巷
  • 拽巷攞街 / 拽巷𫽋街
  • 拽巷邏街 / 拽巷逻街
  • 東交民巷 / 东交民巷
  • 枇杷門巷 / 枇杷门巷
  • 柳巷花街
  • 柳陌花巷
  • 樊家巷 (Fánjiāxiàng)
  • 死巷 (sǐxiàng)
  • 永巷
  • 火巷 (huǒxiàng)
  • 烏衣巷 / 乌衣巷
  • 煙花巷 / 烟花巷 (yānhuāxiàng)
  • 石板巷 (Shíbǎnxiàng)
  • 祁巷 (Qíxiàng)
  • 萬人空巷 / 万人空巷 (wànrénkōngxiàng)
  • 窄巷
  • 窮巷 / 穷巷
  • 窮巷士 / 穷巷士
  • 築底巷 / 筑底巷
  • 簞瓢陋巷 / 箪瓢陋巷
  • 背巷
  • 臭街爛巷 / 臭街烂巷
  • 花街柳巷 (huājiēliǔxiàng)
  • 行號巷哭 / 行号巷哭
  • 街巷 (jiēxiàng)
  • 街巷阡陌
  • 街號巷哭 / 街号巷哭
  • 街談巷說 / 街谈巷说 (jiētánxiàngshuō)
  • 街談巷語 / 街谈巷语
  • 街談巷議 / 街谈巷议 (jiētánxiàngyì)
  • 街頭巷尾 / 街头巷尾 (jiētóuxiàngwěi)
  • 街頭巷語 / 街头巷语
  • 衡門深巷 / 衡门深巷
  • 里巷 (lǐxiàng)
  • 里談巷議 / 里谈巷议
  • 野祭巷哭
  • 長干巷
  • 閭巷 / 闾巷
  • 閭巷草野 / 闾巷草野
  • 陋巷 (lòuxiàng)
  • 陋巷簞瓢 / 陋巷箪瓢
  • 陳巷 / 陈巷 (Chénxiàng)
  • 隘巷 (àixiàng)
  • 雞兒巷 / 鸡儿巷
  • 鳴珂巷 / 鸣珂巷

Further reading

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)
Shinjitai
(extended)

巷󠄀
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(Adobe-Japan1)
巷󠄂
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(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. street, lane; crossroads, fork in the road
  2. town, neighborhood; public

Readings

  • Go-on: ごう ()がう (gau, historical)
  • Kan-on: こう ()かう (kau, historical)
  • Kun: ちまた (chimata, )

Etymology

Kanji in this term
ちまた
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
ちまた
[noun] fork in the road
[noun] alley
[noun] (figuratively) the "town" (in metaphors for popularity, as in English talk of the town and Chinese 街談巷議街谈巷议)
Alternative spellings
,
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(eum (hang))

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Tày

Noun

(ảng)

  1. Nôm form of ảng (alley).

References

  • Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[1] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: hạng, lộng

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