巷

See also: 巻

Translingual

Japanese	巷
Simplified	巷
Traditional	巷

Alternative forms

Note that in Chinese, the bottom is 巳, while in Japanese, the bottom is 己.

Han character

巷 (Kangxi radical 49, 己+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿金口山 (TCRU), four-corner 4471₇, composition ⿱共巳)

Derived characters

• 港

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 327, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8756
• Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 986, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5DF7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		巷
alternative forms		𨞠 𨜕 䢽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 巷
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
港	*kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
巷	*ɡroːŋs
衖	*ɡroːŋs
鬨	*ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
烘	*qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
洪	*ɡloːŋ
鉷	*ɡloːŋ
谼	*ɡloːŋ
葓	*ɡoːŋ
哄	*ɡloːŋs
蕻	*ɡloːŋs
恭	*kloŋ
供	*kloŋ, *kloŋs
龔	*kloŋ
珙	*kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
共	*kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
髸	*kloŋ
拱	*kloŋʔ
拲	*kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
蛬	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
栱	*kloŋʔ
輁	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
舼	*ɡloŋ
輂	*kloɡ

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 巷

1. alley; lane; tunnel

Further reading

• “Entry #4873”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

巷

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. street, lane; crossroads, fork in the road
2. town, neighborhood; public

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: ちまた (chimata, 巷)

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Korean

Hanja

巷 (eum 항 (hang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

巷: Hán Nôm readings: hạng, lộng

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