康

See also: 隶

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 庚 + semantic 米 (“rice”)

Han character

康 (radical 53 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈中水 (ILE), four-corner 0023₂, composition ⿸广隶)

1. peaceful, quiet
2. happy, healthy
3. a surname

See also

• 隶 庚

References

• KangXi: page 347, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9376
• Dae Jaweon: page 658, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 891, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5EB7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

康 (Jyutping hong1, Yale hong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

康

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: やすい (yasui)

Compounds

• 健康 (けんこう, kenkō, “health”)

Proper noun

康 (hiragana やすし, romaji Yasushi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

康 (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

康 (Pinyin kāng (kang1), Wade-Giles k'ang¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

康 (kɑng)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

康 (TLPA khong (khong¹), khng (khng¹))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

康 (khang, khăng, khương)