夯

Translingual

Han character

夯 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 大大尸 (KKS), four-corner 4042₇, composition ⿱大力)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 249, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5841
• Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 526, character 4
• Unihan data for U+592F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		夯

Glyph origin

Compound of 大力 (dàlì).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hāng (hang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haang¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hang

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hang
    • Wade–Giles: hang¹
    • Yale: hāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hang
    • Palladius: хан (xan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: haang¹
    • Yale: hāang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hang¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hang
    • Tâi-lô: hang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hafng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /haŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /haŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /haŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /haŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /haŋ⁴⁴/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 夯

1. to carry on the shoulder (forcefully)
2. rammer
3. to ram
4. to strike forcefully

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 夯 – see 笨 (“foolish; stupid”). (This character is a variant form of 笨).

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Japanese

Kanji

夯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: かつぐ (katsugu), になう (ninau)

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Korean

Hanja

夯 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune–Reischauer hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 夯 (bổn, kháng)

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