警

See also 儆

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 敬 + semantic 言.

Han character

警 (radical 149 言+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 廿大卜一口 (TKYMR), four-corner 4860₁, composition ⿱敬言)

1. guard, watch
2. alert, alarm

Related characters

• 儆

References

• KangXi: page 1183, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35989
• Dae Jaweon: page 1645, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4017, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8B66

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Cantonese

Hanzi

警 (Yale ging2)

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Japanese

Kanji

警 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: けい (kei), きょう (kyō)
• Kun: いましめる (imashimeru), いましめ (imashime)

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Korean

Hanja

警 (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

警 (pinyin jǐng (jing3), Wade-Giles ching³)

Compounds

• 警察

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Vietnamese

Han character

警 (cảnh, khểnh)