響

See also 响

Translingual

shinjitai	響
simplified	响
traditional	響

Alternative forms

Note that Japanese shinjitai replaces 鄉 with 郷, dropping the top stroke on 良, and instead drawing 艮.

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 鄉 + semantic 音 (“sound”) – to make a sound with your mouth.

Han character

響 (radical 180 音+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 女中卜廿日 (VLYTA), four-corner 2760₁, composition ⿱鄉音)

1. make sound, make noise
2. sound

References

• KangXi: page 1398, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43318
• Dae Jaweon: page 1914, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4498, character 10
• Unihan data for U+97FF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

響 (simplified 响, Yale heung2)

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Japanese

Kanji

響 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: ひびく (hibiku), ひびき (hibiki)

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Korean

Hanja

響 (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang, Yale hyang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

響 (simplified 响, pinyin xiǎng (xiang3), Wade-Giles hsiang³)

Compounds

• 方響

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Middle Chinese

Han character

響 (*xiǎng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

響 (hưởng, hướng)