娼

Translingual

Han character

娼 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女日日 (VAA), four-corner 4646₀, composition ⿰女昌)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 263, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6376
• Dae Jaweon: page 530, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1057, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5A3C

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Chinese

trad.		娼
simp. #		娼
alternative forms		倡

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
昌	*tʰjaŋ
倡	*tʰjaŋ, *tʰjaŋs
猖	*tʰjaŋ
菖	*tʰjaŋ
閶	*tʰjaŋ
鯧	*tʰjaŋ
裮	*tʰjaŋ
琩	*tʰjaŋ
唱	*tʰjaŋs

Etymology

From 倡 (OC *tʰjaŋ, “performer”). Cognate with 唱 (OC *tʰjaŋs, “to sing”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chāng (chang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhông
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhiong / chhiang / chhang

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ciang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chang
    • Wade–Giles: chʻang¹
    • Yale: chāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chang
    • Palladius: чан (čan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: coeng¹
    • Yale: chēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhông
    • Hakka Romanization System: cong´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cong¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiong
    • Tâi-lô: tshiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiofng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiang
    • Tâi-lô: tshiang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiafng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiaŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhang
    • Tâi-lô: tshang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhafng
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰaŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ciang¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiang
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiaŋ³³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 娼

1. prostitute

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

娼

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. prostitution

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: あそびめ (asobime)

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Korean

Hanja

娼 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang)

1. window

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 娼 (xướng)

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