穹

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 穴 + phonetic 弓

Han character

穹 (radical 116 穴+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十金弓 (JCN), four-corner 3020₇)

1. high and vast
2. elevated
3. arched

Descendants

• 窮

References

• KangXi: page 862, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25414
• Dae Jaweon: page 1289, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2721, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7A79

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Cantonese

Hanzi

穹 (Yale kung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

穹

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. high arching vault
2. sky

Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: そら (sora), あめ (ame)

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Korean

Hanja

穹 (gung) (hangeul 궁, revised gung, McCune-Reischauer kung, Yale kwung)

1. {하늘 궁): sky, heaven
2. (활꼴 궁): arc, arch, arched

Synonyms

• 空 (gong, 공)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

穹 (Pinyin kōng (kong1), qiōng (qiong1), qióng (qiong2), Wade-Giles k'ung¹, ch'iung¹, ch'iung²)

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