宮

See also 宫, and 官

Translingual

simpl.		宫
trad.		宮

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 + 呂: many rooms under a roof (a palace).

Han character

宮 (radical 40 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十口竹口 (JRHR), four-corner 3060₆, composition ⿱宀呂)

1. palace, temple, dwelling, enclose, first note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or do

Related characters

• 宫
• 官

References

• KangXi: page 285, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7156
• Dae Jaweon: page 564, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 2, page 936, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5BAE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

宮 (simplified 宫, Yale gung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

宮 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. a shrine; a palace

Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū), ぐう (gū)
• Kun: みや (miya)

Etymology

/mi₁ya/ > /miya/

From Old Japanese. A compound of 神 or 御 (mi, “spiritual honorific”) +‎ 屋 (ya, “house”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [mi.ja̠]

Noun

宮 (hiragana みや, romaji miya)

1. the place where a god resides; a shrine
   • 1603–1604: Nippo Jisho (page 413)

     Miya. ミヤ (宮) 神 (Camis)の社.

2. the place where a ruler resides; a palace
   • 1603–1604: Nippo Jisho (page 413)

     Miya. ミヤ (宮) 国王の子. また, 国王の宮殿

3. a member of the imperial family
   • 1603–1604: Nippo Jisho (page 413)

     Miya. ミヤ (宮) 国王の子. また, 国王の宮殿

References

• 1980 May 24 [1603–1604], Tadao Doi, Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0008-0021-3:

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Korean

Hanja

宮 (hangeul 궁, revised gung, McCune-Reischauer kung)

1. (집 궁): house
2. (대궐 궁): palace

Compounds

宮殿 (궁전, gungjeon) royal palace 宮合 (궁합, gunghab) marital harmony 宮刑 (궁형, gunghyeong) genital punishment

迷宮 (미궁, migung) maze, labyrinth 尙宮 (상궁, sanggung) court lady 子宮 (자궁, jagung) womb cf. 아기집

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Mandarin

Hanzi

宮 (simplified 宫, pinyin gōng (gong1), Wade-Giles kung¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宮 (cung)