罄

罄 U+7F44, 罄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F44 ← 罃 [U+7F43] CJK Unified Ideographs 罅 → [U+7F45]

Translingual

Han character

罄 (Kangxi radical 121, 缶+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土水人十山 (GEOJU), four-corner 4777₄, composition ⿱殸缶)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 945, character 45
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28167
• Dae Jaweon: page 1386, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2938, character 14
• Unihan data for U+7F44

Chinese

simp. and trad.		罄

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰeːŋs) : phonetic 殸 (OC *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs) + semantic 缶 (“pottery”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qìng (qing⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hing³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khèng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kêng³

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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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khèng
    • Tâi-lô: khìng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qexng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰiɪŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiɪŋ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: kêng³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khèng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰeŋ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: khengH

Rime
Character	罄
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): /*[kʰ]ˤeŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰeːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	罄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qìng
Middle Chinese	‹ khengH ›
Old Chinese	/*[kʰ]ˁeŋ-s/
English	empty; exhaustively
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	罄
Reading #	1/1
No.	10519
Phonetic component	殸
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	罄
Old Chinese	/*kʰeːŋs/

Definitions

罄

1. empty
2. exhaust, run out, use up

Compounds

• 一言難罄 / 一言难罄
• 告罄 (gàoqìng)
• 售罄 (shòuqìng)
• 囊罄
• 懸罄 / 悬罄
• 瓶罄罍恥 / 瓶罄罍耻
• 缾罄罍恥 / 瓶罄罍耻
• 罄其所有
• 罄淨 / 罄净
• 罄然
• 罄盡 / 罄尽
• 罄竭
• 罄竹難書 / 罄竹难书 (qìngzhúnánshū)
• 罄身
• 賣罄 / 卖罄
• 面罄

Japanese

Kanji

罄

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. exhaust
2. run out
3. use up
4. empty

Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)
• Kun: むなしい (munashī)

Korean

Hanja

罄 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

1. empty
2. exhaust
3. a kind of Chinese musical instrument made of stone or jade

Vietnamese

Han character

罄: Hán Nôm readings: khánh

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