犎

犎 U+728E, 犎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-728E ← 犍 [U+728D] CJK Unified Ideographs 犏 → [U+728F]

Translingual

Han character

犎 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土戈竹手 (GIHQ), four-corner 4450₀, composition ⿱封牛)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 702, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20086
• Dae Jaweon: page 1115, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1815, character 5
• Unihan data for U+728E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		犎
alternative forms		㸼

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
幫	*paːŋ
鞤	*paːŋ
封	*poŋ, *poŋs
葑	*poŋ, *poŋs
犎	*poŋ
崶	*poŋ
湗	*poŋs

Etymology

Eberhard (1968) thought this and similar words like 封 (OC *poŋ, *poŋs, “mound, tumulus”) were all related and fundamentally meant "hump".

Or from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brawŋ (“wild yak, buffalo”) (STEDT, Boodberg 1937, Schuessler, 2007), cognate with Tibetan འབྲོང ('brong, “wild yak”), Burmese ပြောင် (praung, “gaur”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēng (feng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fong
    • Wade–Giles: fêng¹
    • Yale: fēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feng
    • Palladius: фэн (fɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fung¹
    • Yale: fūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pjowng

Rime
Character	犎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	府容切
Baxter	pjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/pioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/pioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puawŋ/
Li Rong	/pioŋ/
Wang Li	/pĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fung1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*poŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	犎
Reading #	1/1
No.	3255
Phonetic component	封
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	封
Old Chinese	/*poŋ/

Definitions

犎

1. Indian ox

   • 犎，㸼：牛名；領上肉㩧（暴）胅起如橐駝。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     犎，㸼：牛名；领上肉㩧（暴）胅起如橐驼。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1037, 丁度 Ding Du (chief editor), 《集韻》 Jiyun "Collected Rimes"

     Fēng, fēng: niú míng; lǐngshàng ròu (bó) dié qǐ rú tuótuó. [Pinyin]

     犎, 㸼 (fēng "zebu"): name of a kind of bovines. On their necks rise fleshy humps, bulging and swelling like camels'.

Compounds

• 犎牛 (fēngniú)

 

Japanese

Kanji

犎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. zebu

Readings

• Go-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)

Compounds

• 犎(ほう)牛(ぎゅう) (hōgyū, “zebu”)