殸

殸	U+6BB8, 殸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BB8

← 殷
[U+6BB7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

殹 →
[U+6BB9]

Translingual

Han character

殸 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土竹竹弓水 (GHHNE), composition ⿰声殳)

Descendants

撀, 㯏, 漀, 㷫, 㿦, 磬, 䅽, 㲆, 㲇, 㲈, 罄, 聲, 𪵑, 謦, 䡰(𰺘), 鏧, 𣫙, 韾, 馨, 毊, 𪚣(𬺝), 𤯒

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 585, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16633
Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2159, character 6
Unihan data for U+6BB8

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
殸	kʰreːŋ, kʰeːŋs
聲	*qʰjeŋ
謦	kʰeːŋʔ, kʰeːŋs
磬	*kʰeːŋs
罄	*kʰeːŋs
馨	*qʰeːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 声 (“stone chime”) + 殳 (“hand holding a hammer or a mallet”) — a stone chime being struck by a mallet. Compare 鼓, in which a drum is being beaten. See also the right component of 段. See also 㱿.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		殸

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kēng (keng¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄥ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: keng
  - Wade–Giles: kʻêng¹
  - Yale: kēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keng
  - Palladius: кэн (kɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: kheang, khengH

Rime
Character	殸	殸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	口莖切	苦定切
Baxter	kheang	khengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠɛŋ/	/kʰeŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚæŋ/	/kʰeŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɐŋ/	/kʰɛŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰəɨjŋ/	/kʰɛjŋ^H/
Li Rong	/kʰɛŋ/	/kʰeŋ^H/
Wang Li	/kʰæŋ/	/kʰieŋ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰæŋ/	/kʰieŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kēng	qìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hang¹	hing³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[C.qʰ]ˤeŋ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰreːŋ/, /*kʰeːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	殸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qìng
Middle Chinese	‹ kheng^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[C.qʰ]ˁeŋ-s/
English	hanging musical stone
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	殸	殸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10513	10516
Phonetic component
Rime group	耕	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	鏗	罄
Old Chinese	/*kʰreːŋ/	/*kʰeːŋs/
Notes		籀文磬

Definitions

殸

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) enemy

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 殸 – see 磬 (“stone chimes; sounding stone; qing; inverted bell”). (This character is a variant form of 磬).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 殸 – see 聲 (“sound; noise; voice; music; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 聲).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C05907

Japanese

Kanji

殸

(Hyōgai kanji)

voice

Readings

On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)、こう (kō)、せい (sei)、しょう (shō)
Kun: けい (kei)、てき (teki)、こえ (koe)

Korean

Hanja

殸 • (seong) (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune–Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)