剄

See also: 刭

剄 U+5244, 剄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5244 ← 剃 [U+5243] CJK Unified Ideographs 剅 → [U+5245]

Translingual

Han character

剄 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一一中弓 (MMLN), four-corner 1210₀, composition ⿰巠刂)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 139, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1990
• Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 340, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5244

Chinese

trad.		剄
simp.		刭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
葝	*ɡeŋ, *ɡeŋ
頸	*keŋʔ, *ɡeŋ
勁	*kɯns, *keŋs
鑋	*kʰeŋ, *kʰeːŋs
輕	*kʰeŋ, *kʰeŋs
涇	*ɡeŋʔ, *keːŋ
經	*keːŋ, *keːŋs
鵛	*keːŋ
巠	*keːŋ
剄	*keːŋʔ
烴	*keːŋʔ
徑	*keːŋs
逕	*keːŋs
桱	*keːŋs
蛵	*qʰeːŋ
陘	*ɡeːŋ
鋞	*ɡeːŋ, *ɡeːŋʔ
脛	*ɡeːŋʔ, *ɡeːŋs
踁	*ɡeːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *keːŋʔ) : phonetic 巠 (OC *keːŋ) + semantic 刂 (“knife”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐng (jing³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ging²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kéng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jǐng
    • Wade–Giles: ching³
    • Yale: jǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiing
    • Palladius: цзин (czin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ging²
    • Yale: gíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ging²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ging²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɪŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kéng
    • Tâi-lô: kíng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: keang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɪŋ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kengX

Rime
Character	剄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古挺切
Baxter	kengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/keŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/keŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛjŋX/
Li Rong	/keŋX/
Wang Li	/kieŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kieŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ging2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤeŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*keːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	剄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ kengX ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁeŋʔ/
English	cut the throat
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	剄
Reading #	1/1
No.	6803
Phonetic component	巠
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	剄
Old Chinese	/*keːŋʔ/

Definitions

剄

1. (literary) to cut one's throat (Chinese ritual suicide, like seppuku in Japan)

Synonyms

• 刎 (wěn)

Compounds

• 自剄／自刭 (zìjǐng)

 

Japanese

Kanji

剄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. beheading

Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)
• Kan-on: けい (kei)
• Kun: くびきる (kubikiru, 剄る)

Compounds

• 剄死

Korean

Hanja

剄 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng)

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