磬

磬 U+78EC, 磬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78EC ← 磫 [U+78EB] CJK Unified Ideographs 磭 → [U+78ED]

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

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

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• 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/

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• 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	/kʰeŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰeŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɛŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɛjŋH/
Li Rong	/kʰeŋH/
Wang Li	/kʰieŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰieŋH/
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	‹ khengH ›
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

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

Compounds

• 室如懸磬／室如悬磬
• 引磬
• 懸然如磬／悬然如磬
• 手磬子
• 朱弦玉磬
• 玉磬
• 磬子
• 磬折
• 磬控
• 笙磬同音
• 簪筆磬折／簪笔磬折
• 編磬／编磬 (biānqìng)
• 鐘磬／钟磬
• 飯磬／饭磬

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (磬):

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

See also

• 毊／𪵑 (xiāo)

Japanese

Kanji

磬

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. 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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