庠

See also: 痒

庠 U+5EA0, 庠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EA0 ← 废 [U+5E9F] CJK Unified Ideographs 庡 → [U+5EA1]

Translingual

Han character

庠 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿手 (ITQ), four-corner 0025₁, composition ⿸广羊)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 345, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9298
• Dae Jaweon: page 655, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 883, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5EA0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		庠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
样	*ʔslaːŋ, *laŋ
佯	*zlaŋ, *laŋ
詳	*ljaŋ, *laŋ
洋	*ljaŋ, *laŋ
翔	*ljaŋ
庠	*ljaŋ
祥	*ljaŋ
痒	*ljaŋ, *laŋʔ
姜	*klaŋ
羌	*kʰlaŋ
蜣	*kʰlaŋ
猐	*kʰlaŋ
唴	*kʰlaŋs
羊	*laŋ
徉	*laŋ
烊	*laŋ
蛘	*laŋ, *laŋʔ
眻	*laŋ, *laŋs
鴹	*laŋ
恙	*laŋs
羕	*laŋs
樣	*laŋs
漾	*laŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ljaŋ) : semantic 广 + phonetic 羊 (OC *laŋ)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lɨ̆ŋ (“convent, school”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiáng (xiang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siáng
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang²
    • Yale: syáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyang
    • Palladius: сян (sjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: coeng⁴
    • Yale: chèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: zjang

Rime
Character	庠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似羊切
Baxter	zjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/ziaŋ/
Wang Li	/zĭaŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-[ɢ]aŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiáng
Middle Chinese	‹ zjang ›
Old Chinese	/*s-[ɢ]aŋ/
English	school
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	庠
Reading #	1/1
No.	14527
Phonetic component	羊
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	詳
Old Chinese	/*ljaŋ/

Definitions

庠

1. (archaic) country school
2. ^† to teach

Compounds

• 上庠 (shàngxiáng)
• 入庠
• 庠序 (xiángxù)
• 庠生
• 東庠 / 东庠 (Dōngxiáng)
• 膠庠 / 胶庠
• 遊庠 / 游庠
• 邑庠
• 郡庠

 

Japanese

Kanji

庠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. school; originally, a school in ancient China

   Synonym: 序

Readings

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: まなびや (manabiya, 庠)

Compounds

• 庠(しょう)序(じょ) (shōjo, “school”)
• 庠(しょう)校(こう) (shōkō, “school”)

Noun

For pronunciation and definitions of 庠 – see the following entry.

【学まなび舎や】 [noun] school, school building Alternative spelling 序

(This term, 庠, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

庠 (eum 상 (sang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

庠: Hán Nôm readings: tường

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References

• Nom Foundation