厂

See also: 广 and 𠂆

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

厂 (Kangxi radical 27, 厂+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 一竹 (MH), four-corner 7120₀, composition ⿱一丿)

1. Kangxi radical #27, ⼚.

Descendants

• ㄏ
• ㆷ

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/厂
• 屵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 160, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2890
• Dae Jaweon: page 366, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 67, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5382

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 厂
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
厂	*hŋaːnʔ, *hŋaːns
屵	*ŋaːd

Etymology 1

Simplified from 厰 (elimination of 敞).

Etymology 2

Pictogram (象形) – a cliff.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 厂 – see 廠 (“shack; shed; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 廠).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		厂
alternative forms		厈

From the stem *ŋaʔ (“to oppose; to resist”), i.e. “that which resists (the river's flow)”, with a voiceless initial (used to signify that that the noun refers to a natural object) and a general noun suffix *-n; related to 岸 (OC *ŋɡaːns, “bank; shore”), 滸 (OC *hŋaːʔ, “riverbank”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎn (han³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hon³ / hon²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǎn
    • Wade–Giles: han³
    • Yale: hǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haan
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hon³ / hon²
    • Yale: hon / hón
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hon³ / hon²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hon³ / hon²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn³³/, /hɔːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xanX, xanH

Rime
Character	厂	厂
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	呼旱切	呼旰切
Baxter	xanX	xanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑnX/	/hɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑnX/	/hɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑnX/	/xɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hanX/	/hanH/
Li Rong	/xɑnX/	/xɑnH/
Wang Li	/xɑnX/	/xɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xɑnX/	/xɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hǎn	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hon2	hon3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ̊ˤarʔ/, /*ŋ̊ˤar(ʔ)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hŋaːnʔ/, /*hŋaːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	厂	厂
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hàn	hàn
Middle Chinese	‹ xanX ›	‹ xanH ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ̊ˁarʔ/	/*ŋ̊ˁar(ʔ)-s/
English	cliff	cliff
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	厂	厂
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4883	4884
Phonetic component	厂	厂
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	䍐	漢
Old Chinese	/*hŋaːnʔ/	/*hŋaːns/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 厂

1. ^† cliff; habitable cave on a cliff

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		厂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ān (an¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): am¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): am¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ān
    • Zhuyin: ㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: an
    • Wade–Giles: an¹
    • Yale: ān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: an
    • Palladius: ань (anʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: am¹
    • Yale: ām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: am¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: em¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐm⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: am¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: am
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /am³³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 厂

1. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 庵 (ān), usually used in names.

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 厂 – see 䉷 (“object for hiding when shooting birds; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 䉷).

Usage notes

• As a component of other characters, 厂 can be referred to as 偏廠兒／偏厂儿 (piānchǎngr) or 廠字頭／厂字头 (chǎngzìtóu).

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Japanese

Kanji

厂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Kangxi radical 27 "cliff"

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan), げん (gen), ごん (gon)
• Kun: がんだれ (gandare), いしだれ (ishidare)

References

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 033510

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Korean

Hanja

厂 • (eom, han) (hangeul 엄, 한, McCune–Reischauer ŏm, han)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 厂

Readings

• âm (phonetic reading): hán, xưởng
• nghĩa (literal meaning): xưởng

Noun

厂

1. xưởng (factory, mill, workshop)

References

• Nôm Foundation
• Viet Dictionary