卬

卬 U+536C, 卬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-536C ← 卫 [U+536B] CJK Unified Ideographs 卭 → [U+536D]

See also: 卯 and 卵

Translingual

Han character

卬 (radical 26 卩+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹女尸中 (HVSL), four-corner 2772₀)

1. lofty
2. high
3. to raise, lift up
4. high-priced

Derived characters

• 迎

References

• KangXi: page 158, character 49
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2841
• Dae Jaweon: page 363, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 310, character 12
• Unihan data for U+536C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		卬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卬
Oracle bone script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (卬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
卬	*ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ
枊	*ŋaːŋ, *ŋaːŋs
昂	*ŋaːŋ
仰	*ŋaŋʔ, *ŋaŋs
迎	*ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 匕 + 卩: a man standing and a man kneeling; compare 化.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): áng (ang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: áng
    • Zhuyin: ㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: angr
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngong⁴
    • Yale: ngòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngong⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɔːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋɑŋ/, /ŋɨɐŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	卬	卬
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	五岡切	魚兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑŋ/	/ŋɨɐŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑŋ/	/ŋiɐŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑŋ/	/ŋiɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋaŋ/	/ŋɨaŋX/
Li Rong	/ŋɑŋ/	/ŋiaŋX/
Wang Li	/ŋɑŋ/	/ŋĭaŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑŋ/	/ŋi̯aŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	áng	yǎng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[k.ŋ]ˤaŋ/, /*ŋˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːŋ/, /*ŋaŋʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卬	卬
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	áng	áng
Middle Chinese	‹ ngang ›	‹ ngang ›
Old Chinese	/*[k.ŋ]ˤaŋ/	/*ŋˤaŋ/
English	high; lift high	I, me
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	卬	卬
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	27	32
Phonetic component	卬	卬
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	卬	仰
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːŋ/	/*ŋaŋʔ/

Definitions

卬

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Japanese

Kanji

卬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. lofty
2. high
3. raise
4. high-priced

Readings

• On (unclassified): ごう (gō) < がう (gau), きょう (kyō) < きやう (kyau)
• Kun: のぞむ (nozomu), なす (nasu), たかぶる (takaburu)

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Korean

Hanja

卬 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune-Reischauer ang)

1. I, oneself
2. high
3. raise

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Vietnamese

Han character

卬 (ngang, ngàng)

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