敞

Translingual

Han character

敞 (radical 66 攴+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火月人大 (FBOK), X火月人大 (XFBOK), four-corner 9824₀, composition ⿰尚攵)

1. roomy, spacious, open, broad

References

• KangXi: page 472, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13246
• Dae Jaweon: page 825, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1467, character 3
• Unihan data for U+655E

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		敞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chǎng (chang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cong²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ang³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chaang
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cong²
    • Yale: chóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsong²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ³⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (敞, reconstructed)
Character (敞), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 昌 (24) Final: 陽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 昌兩切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰɨɐŋX/	/t͡ɕʰi̯aŋX/	/t͡ɕʰiaŋX/	/t͡ɕʰiɐŋX/	/cʰɨaŋX/	/t͡ɕʰĭaŋX/	/t͡ɕʰiɑŋX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (敞, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
敞								chǎng								‹ tsyhangX ›								/*tʰaŋʔ/								open, spacious
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
敞					11148					尚					陽					0					敞					/*tʰjaŋʔ/

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Japanese

Kanji

敞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: たかい (takai), ほがらか (hogaraka)

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Korean

Hanja

敞 (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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