容

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容 U+5BB9, 容
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BB9
← 宸
[U+5BB8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 宺 →
[U+5BBA]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
10 strokes

Han character[edit]

容 (radical 40, 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金人口 (JCOR), four-corner 30608, composition ⿱宀谷)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 287, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7172
  • Dae Jaweon: page 567, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 933, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+5BB9

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 容
variant forms 㝐
頌 “looks”

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 容
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
容-bronze.svg 容-seal.svg 容-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (谷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
螸 *lo
裕 *loɡs
容 *loŋ
溶 *loŋ, *loŋʔ
鎔 *loŋ
蓉 *loŋ
傛 *loŋ, *loŋʔ
褣 *loŋ
搈 *loŋ
瑢 *loŋ
嵱 *loŋ
熔 *loŋ
榕 *loŋ
塎 *loŋʔ
谷 *ɦkroːɡ, *kloːɡ, *ɡ·loːɡ
唂 *kloːɡ
焀 *ɡloːɡ
俗 *ljoɡ
欲 *loɡ
浴 *loɡ
鵒 *loɡ
峪 *ɦkloːɡ
鋊 *loɡ
輍 *loɡ
慾 *loɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *loŋ): semantic 宀 + phonetic 公 (OC *kloːŋ) – to hold; to contain.

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 容
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 餘封切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/juawŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ioŋ/
Wang
Li 		/jĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yóng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 容 容
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		róng róng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yowng › ‹ yowng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ɢ](r)oŋ/ /*[ɢ](r)oŋ/
English contain appearance

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 容
Reading # 1/1
No. 4284
Phonetic
component 		谷
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		容
Old
Chinese 		/*loŋ/
Notes 說文古文從公，小徐作谷聲

Definitions[edit]

容

  1. to hold; to contain
  2. to tolerate; to stand
  3. to allow; to permit
    請容我說兩句 / 请容我说两句  ―  qǐng róng wǒ shuō liǎng jù  ―  Please allow me to say something
  4. perhaps; maybe
  5. facial appearance; looks
  6. bearing; posture
  7. A surname​.
  8. (～縣) Rong County, Yulin, Guangxi

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 容

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

容

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. contain
  2. forgive, allow, permit
  3. shape, appearance

Readings[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

Formerly used as man'yōgana for the back-vowel variant 甲類 (kōrui) of よ (yo).

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Noun[edit]

容 (hiragana かたち, rōmaji katachi)

  1. Alternative form of 形

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

容 • (yong) (hangeul 용, revised yong, McCune–Reischauer yong)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

容 (dung, dong, dông, gióng, giông, ròng, rông, rung)

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References[edit]

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