抗

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 + phonetic 亢.

Han character

抗 (radical 64 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手卜竹弓 (QYHN), four-corner 5001₇, composition ⿰扌亢)

1. resist, oppose, defy, reject

References

• KangXi: page 422, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11889
• Dae Jaweon: page 769, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1843, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6297

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Cantonese

Hanzi

抗 (Yale kong3)

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Japanese

Kanji

抗 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: あらがう (aragau), ふせぐ (fusegu)

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Korean

Hanja

抗 (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune-Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

抗 (pinyin kàng (kang4), Wade-Giles k'ang⁴)

Compounds

• 抗体,|抗體 antibody

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Vietnamese

Han character

抗 (kháng)