扃

扃	U+6243, 扃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6243

← 扂
[U+6242]

CJK Unified Ideographs

扄 →
[U+6244]

Translingual

Han character

扃 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸月口 (HSBR) or 戈尸月口 (ISBR), four-corner 3722₇, composition ⿸戶冋 or ⿸户冋)

a door bar placed outside a door

Derived characters

𡹫, 𣕄, 𭵚, 𧍮, 𨩮

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 416, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11728
Dae Jaweon: page 761, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2262, character 2
Unihan data for U+6243

Chinese

trad.		扃
simp. ^#		扃
alternative forms		𢇺𨴀扄銄

Glyph origin

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

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiōng, jiǒng (jiong¹, jiong³)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄥ, ㄐㄩㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwing¹ / gwing²

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/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jiǒng
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyǒng
  - Wade–Giles: chiung³
  - Yale: jyǔng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeong
  - Palladius: цзюн (czjun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ʊŋ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gwing¹ / gwing²
  - Yale: gwīng / gwíng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwing¹ / gwing²
  - Guangdong Romanization: guing¹ / guing²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɪŋ⁵⁵/, /kʷɪŋ³⁵/

Middle Chinese: kweng

Rime
Character	扃
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	扃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiōng
Middle Chinese	‹ kweng ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁeŋ/
English	door bolt
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	扃
Reading #	1/1
No.	6900
Phonetic component	冋
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːŋ/

Definitions

扃

doorlatch
clasp; latch; bolt; fastener (on some item)
doorleaf
to close; to shut; to bolt (a door)
(Chinese mythology) Jiong of Xia (twelfth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)

Compounds

基扃
扃戶 / 扃户
扃扃
扃絹 / 扃绢
扃鍵 / 扃键
扃鐍 / 扃𫔎
扃門 / 扃门
扃關 / 扃关
泉扃
門不夜扃 / 门不夜扃

References

“扃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

扃

(Hyōgai kanji)

door bar placed outside a door

Readings

On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)、へん (hen)
Kun: かんぬき (kannuki)、とびら (tobira)

Korean

Hanja

扃 (eum 경 (gyeong))

bolt for fastening a door from outside

Vietnamese

Han character

扃: Hán Nôm readings: quynh

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References

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