姜

See also 薑

Translingual

Han character

姜 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿土女 (TGV), four-corner 8040₄, composition ⿱𦍌女)

1. used as a surname
2. ginger

References

• KangXi: page 259, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6205
• Dae Jaweon: page 525, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1047, character 11
• Unihan data for U+59DC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

姜 (Yale geung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

姜

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: つよい (tsuyoi)

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Korean

Hanja

姜 (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

姜 (pinyin jiāng (jiang1), Wade-Giles chiang¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

姜 (khương, cưng, gừng)