咏

See also: 詠

Translingual

Han character

咏 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口戈弓水 (RINE), composition ⿰口永)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 185, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3494
• Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 609, character 1
• Unihan data for U+548F

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
永	*ɢʷraŋʔ
栐	*ɢʷraŋʔ
泳	*ɢʷraŋs
詠	*ɢʷraŋs
咏	*ɢʷraŋs

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 咏 – see 詠 (“to sing; to hum; to chant; to describe in poetic language”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 詠).

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

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Japanese

Kanji

咏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. recitation
2. poem
3. song
4. composing

Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)←ゐやう (wyau, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えい (ei)^{←ゑい (wei, historical)}
• Kun: うたう (utau, 咏う); よむ (yomu, 咏む)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
咏
えい Hyōgaiji
kan'on

For pronunciation and definitions of 咏 – see the following entry: 詠

(The following entry is uncreated: 詠.)

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Korean

Hanja

咏 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng)

1. sing song or poem, hum, chant