央

Translingual

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

央 (radical 37 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中月大 (LBK), four-corner 5003₀)

1. centre
2. conclude
3. run out
4. beg

Derived characters

• 映 英

References

• KangXi: page 249, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5840
• Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 524, character 6
• Unihan data for U+592E

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		央

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yāng, bèn (yang¹, ben⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤ, ㄅㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ng / iong / iang

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: yang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iang
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄣˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pên⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: benn
    • IPA ^(key): /pən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng¹
    • Yale: yēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ng / iong / iang
    • Tâi-lô: ng / iong / iang
    • IPA (Taipei): /ʔŋ̍⁴⁴/, /iɔŋ⁴⁴/, /iaŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ʔŋ̍³⁴/, /iɔŋ³⁴/, /iaŋ³⁴/
  • Note: ng: colliqual reading, iong: literary reading of Quanzhou, Amoy & Taipei dialects, iang: literary reading of Zhangzhou dialect. The colliqual reading is used for central (middle) position only.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (央, reconstructed)
Character (央), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 陽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 於良切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɨɐŋ/	/ʔi̯aŋ/	/ʔiaŋ/	/ʔiɐŋ/	/ʔɨaŋ/	/ĭaŋ/	/ʔiɑŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (央, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
央								yāng								‹ ʔjang ›								/*ʔaŋ/								end (v.)
央								yāng								‹ ʔjang ›								/*ʔaŋ/								center (n.)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
央					14488					央					陽					0					央					/*qaŋ/

Compounds

• 央告
• 央行
• 央求
• 央托
• 中央 (central)

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Japanese

Kanji

央

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. centre, middle

Readings

• Goon: おう (ō), よう (yō)
• Kan’on: よう (yō), えい (ei)
• Kun: なかば (nakaba)

Compounds

• 震央
• 中央

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Korean

Hanja

央 (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune-Reischauer ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

央 (ương, trân)

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