昜

See also: 易

昜 U+661C, 昜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-661C ← 昛 [U+661B] CJK Unified Ideographs 昝 → [U+661D]

Translingual

Han character

昜 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日一尸竹 (AMSH), four-corner 6022₇, composition ⿱旦勿)

Derived characters

• 偒, 啺, 場, 婸, 崵, 愓, 揚, 湯, 陽, 暘, 楊, 煬, 瑒, 禓, 腸, 畼, 䁑, 𥏫, 碭, 暢, 糃, 䑗, 蝪, 諹, 踼, 輰, 鍚, 餳, 鰑, 䵘, 䵮
• 逿, 㼒, 𧼮, 颺, 𭃶, 𠢃, 𬪌, 㦹, 𢾙, 敭, 𭭐, 𣈟, 𠭲, 𥏬, 𣉺, 𣋇, 䬗, 𪃌, 𬀷, 𫯭, 𫳞, 𦳝, 𥯕, 𣝻, 𥌖, 瘍, 𤔰, 氱, 𤋁, 𨵶, 𫭍, 薚, 𬟎
• 傷, 塲, 慯, 摥, 漡, 殤, 膓, 𤳈, 觴, 鬺, 䵰

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 492, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13832
• Dae Jaweon: page 855, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1499, character 7
• Unihan data for U+661C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		昜
alternative forms		𣆄 𠃓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昜
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
湯	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪	*l̥ʰaːŋ
薚	*l̥ʰaːŋ
簜	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒	*l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩	*l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙	*l̥ʰaːŋs
啺	*l'aːŋ
碭	*l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸	*l'aːŋʔ
愓	*l'aːŋʔ
璗	*l'aːŋʔ
崵	*l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿	*l'aːŋs
暢	*l̥ʰaŋs
畼	*l̥ʰaŋs
腸	*l'aŋ
場	*l'aŋ
傷	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤	*hljaŋ
觴	*hljaŋ
慯	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓	*hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲	*hljaŋ
陽	*laŋ
楊	*laŋ
揚	*laŋ
瘍	*laŋ
煬	*laŋ, *laŋs
鍚	*laŋ
暘	*laŋ
颺	*laŋ, *laŋs
昜	*laŋ
輰	*laŋ
敭	*laŋ
鰑	*laŋ
諹	*laŋ, *laŋs
瑒	*laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉	*laŋ
餳	*ljaːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 日 (“sun”) + 示 + 彡 The rays of the sun.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yáng (yang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yáng
    • Wade–Giles: yang²
    • Yale: yáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yang
    • Palladius: ян (jan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng⁴
    • Yale: yèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iông
    • Tâi-lô: iông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ioong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɔŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: yang

Rime
Character	昜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	與章切
Baxter	yang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/iɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/iaŋ/
Wang Li	/jĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yáng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	joeng4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*laŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*laŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	昜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yáng
Middle Chinese	‹ yang ›
Old Chinese	/*laŋ/
English	bright
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	昜
Reading #	1/1
No.	14598
Phonetic component	昜
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	陽
Old Chinese	/*laŋ/
Notes	甲金文象日光下射爲陽初文

Definitions

昜

1. Alternative form of 陽／阳
2. Alternative form of 易

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 122
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01780-003

Japanese

Kanji

昜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)
• Kan-on: よう (yō)
• Kun: あがる (agaru); ひかり (hikari)

Korean

Hanja

昜 (eumhun 볕 양 (byeot yang))

1. Hanja form^? of 양 (“the sun; sunlight; sunshine; sunbeam”).

Vietnamese

Han character

昜: Hán Nôm readings: dương

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