磬

磬	U+78EC, 磬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78EC

Translingual

Han character

磬 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土水一口 (GEMR), four-corner 4760₁, composition ⿱殸石)

Derived characters

𡄇

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 836, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24454
Dae Jaweon: page 1253, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2451, character 2
Unihan data for U+78EC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		磬

Wikipedia has articles on:

磬 (法器) (Written Standard Chinese^?)
Sounding stone (English)

Glyph origin

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

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 殸 + 石 (“stone”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qìng (qing⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hing³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cìng
  - Wade–Giles: chʻing⁴
  - Yale: chìng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chinq
  - Palladius: цин (cin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hing³
  - Yale: hing
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hing³
  - Guangdong Romanization: hing³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɪŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: khengH

Rime
Character	磬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	苦定切
Baxter	khengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰeŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰeŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɛŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɛjŋ^H/
Li Rong	/kʰeŋ^H/
Wang Li	/kʰieŋ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰieŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hing³

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

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰeːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	磬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qìng
Middle Chinese	‹ kheng^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[C.qʰ]ˁeŋ-s/
English	suspend
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	磬
Reading #	1/1
No.	10518
Phonetic component	殸
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	罄
Old Chinese	/*kʰeːŋs/

Definitions

磬

stone chimes; sounding stone; qing
(Buddhism) inverted bell (a Buddhist percussion instrument)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (磬):

→ Japanese: 磬(きょう) (kyō); 磬(けい) (kei)
→ Korean: 경(磬) (gyeong)
→ Vietnamese: khánh (磬)

Japanese

Kanji

磬

(Hyōgai kanji)

upside-V-shaped gong

Readings

Go-on: きょう (kyō)
Kan-on: けい (kei)
Kun: うちいし (uchiishi)、むなしい (munashii)、つきる (tsukiru)

Compounds

方磬(ほうけい) (hōkei): hōkyō, an instrument similar to the Chinese fangxiang

Korean

Hanja

磬 (eum 경 (gyeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

磬: Hán Nôm readings: khánh

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Translingual

Han character

Derived characters

References

Chinese

Glyph origin

Pronunciation

Definitions

Compounds

Descendants

See also

Japanese

Kanji

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

Vietnamese

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