享

享 U+4EAB, 享 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EAB ← 亪 [U+4EAA] CJK Unified Ideographs 京 → [U+4EAC]

See also: 亨, 亭, and 亯

Translingual

Han character

享 (radical 8 亠+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜口弓木 (YRND), four-corner 0040₇, composition ⿳亠口子)

Derived characters

• 郭 孰

References

• KangXi: page 88, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 298
• Dae Jaweon: page 187, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 284, character 8
• Unihan data for U+4EAB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		享
alt. forms		亯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 享
Oracle bone script j13528 j13529 j13530 j13531 j13532 j13533 j13534 j13535 j13536 j13537 j13538 j13539 j13540 j13541 j13542 Large seal script L35082 L35083 L35084 L35085 L35086 L17490 L17491 L17492 L17493 L17494 L17495 L17496 L17497 L17498 L17499 L17500 L17501 L17502 L17503 L17504 L17505 L17506 L17507 Small seal script s03838 s03839
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (large seal) and Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (亨) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
亨	*qʰaŋʔ, *pqʰraːŋ, *qʰraːŋ
享	*qʰaŋʔ
烹	*pqʰraːŋ
脝	*qʰraːŋ
悙	*qʰraːŋ
哼	*qʰraːŋ

See 亯.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎng (xiang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoeng²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hióng
• Min Nan (POJ): hióng / hiáng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˇ
    • Wade-Giles: hsiang³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheang
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hoeng²
    • Yale: héung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoeng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêng²
    • IPA ^(key): /hœːŋ³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hióng
    • Hakka Romanization System: hiong`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hiong³
    • IPA: /hi̯oŋ³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hióng
    • Tâi-lô: hióng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiorng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiɔŋ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiáng
    • Tâi-lô: hiáng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiarng
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiaŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiaŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiaŋ⁵³/

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[qʰ]ˤraŋ/, /*[qʰ]aŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰaŋʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	享	享
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎng	xiǎng
Middle Chinese	‹ xæng ›	‹ xjangX ›
Old Chinese	/*[qʰ]ˤraŋ/ (W dialect)	/*[qʰ]aŋʔ/
English	pfieenlde)trate	offer in sacrifice; food offering
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	享
Reading #	1/1
No.	5112
Phonetic component	亨
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	響
Old Chinese	/*qʰaŋʔ/
Notes	說文亯或體

Definitions

享

1. to enjoy

Compounds

• 享受 (xiǎngshòu)
• 享有 (xiǎngyǒu)

• 享樂／享乐 (xiǎnglè)
• 享用 (xiǎngyòng)

• 共享 (gòngxiǎng)
• 分享 (fēnxiǎng)

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Japanese

Kanji

享

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: こう (kō)
• Kan’on: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: すすめる (susumeru), うける (ukeru)

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Korean

Hanja

享 • (hyang) (hangeul 향, revised hyang, McCune-Reischauer hyang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

享 (hưởng)

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