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See also:
U+5EB7, 康
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EB7

[U+5EB6]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5EB8]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 53, 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈中水 (ILE), four-corner 00232, composition 广)

Derived characters[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 347, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9376
  • Dae Jaweon: page 658, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 891, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5EB7

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms 𢊪
𥹺
𠭳
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  • (Cantonese)

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意): (threshing tools) + (rice) – chaff.

The derivative refers to the original word.

Etymology[edit]

quiet, calm, peaceful
Schuessler (2007) compares (OC *khâŋ) < *khlaŋ to Mizo tlan ~ tlang (good, kindly, mild, calm, etc.), both tentatively from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *klaŋ.
Kham
Borrowed from Tibetan ཁམས (khams).
"to look, to see"
Arose from mishearing of 好康 (hǎokāng, “rich; lucky; fortunate”) as 好看 (hǎokàn, “good-looking; worth seeing”) in a line of 如果早知道男生也會被性侵.

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • khng - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • khong - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter khang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰaŋ/
Li
Rong
/kʰɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/kʰɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hong1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kāng kāng tāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khang › ‹ khang › ‹ thang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[kʰ]ˁaŋ/ /*k-r̥ˁaŋ/ /*r̥ˁaŋ/
English empty tranquil; at ease name of first Shang ruler

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 3981
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰlaːŋ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. peaceful and happy; tranquil
  2. healthy; well; strong
  3. prosperous; plentiful; abundant
  4. broad; vast; smooth; level
  5. (obsolete) hollow; empty
  6. (obsolete) Original form of (kāng, “chaff; husk”).
  7. (Chinese mythology) Tai Kang (third king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)
    Synonym: 太康 (Tài Kāng)
  8. (Chinese mythology) Zhong Kang (fourth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)
    Synonym: 仲康 (Zhòng Kāng)
  9. (Chinese mythology) Shao Kang (sixth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)
    Synonym: 少康 (Shào Kāng)
  10. a surname
      ―  Kāng Yǒuwéi  ―  Kang Youwei
    1. (historical) a surname. given to people from the Central Asian country of Kangju (康居 or 康國康国)
  11. Kham (a historical region in Tibet)
  12. (Internet slang) Alternative form of (to look; to see)

Compounds[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. peace

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

(やすし) (Yasushi

  1. a male given name

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eumhun 편안할 (pyeonanhal gang))

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Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: khang, khăng, khương

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