猖

猖 U+7316, 猖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7316 ← 猕 [U+7315] CJK Unified Ideographs 猗 → [U+7317]

Translingual

Han character

猖 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大竹日日 (KHAA), four-corner 4626₀, composition ⿰犭昌)

1. mad, wild, reckless, unruly

Derived characters

• 𮐫

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 713, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20490
• Dae Jaweon: page 1125, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1353, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7316

Chinese

simp. and trad.		猖

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
昌	*tʰjaŋ
倡	*tʰjaŋ, *tʰjaŋs
猖	*tʰjaŋ
菖	*tʰjaŋ
閶	*tʰjaŋ
鯧	*tʰjaŋ
裮	*tʰjaŋ
琩	*tʰjaŋ
唱	*tʰjaŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰjaŋ): semantic 犭 (“dog”) + phonetic 昌 (OC *tʰjaŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chāng (chang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): chiŏng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cieo¹ / ciuⁿ¹ / cyong¹ / cyeng¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhiong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ciang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chang
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang¹
    • Yale: chāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chang
    • Palladius: чан (čan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: coeng¹
    • Yale: chēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chiŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuoŋ⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: cieo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰieu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ciuⁿ¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰĩũ⁵³³/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: cyong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyɒŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: cyeng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyøŋ⁵³³/

Note:

• cieo1/ciuⁿ1 - vernacular;
• cyong1/cyeng1 - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiong
    • Tâi-lô: tshiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ciang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiaŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhang

Rime
Character	猖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尺良切
Baxter	tsyhang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiaŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjaŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	猖
Reading #	1/1
No.	1251
Phonetic component	昌
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	昌
Old Chinese	/*tʰjaŋ/

Definitions

猖

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Compounds

• 狓猖
• 猖亂 / 猖乱
• 猖披 (chāngpī)
• 猖狂 (chāngkuáng)
• 猖猖狂狂
• 猖獗 (chāngjué)

References

• “猖”, 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–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “猖”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 26.

Japanese

Kanji

猖

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: くるう (kuruu, 猖う)

Korean

Hanja

猖 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

猖: Hán Nôm readings: xương

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