康

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See also: 隶
康 U+5EB7, 康
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EB7
← 庶
[U+5EB6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 庸 →
[U+5EB8]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
11 strokes

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 康
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 康 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 康 (Cantonese)

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唐 *ɡl'aːŋ
煻 *l'aːŋ
糖 *l'aːŋ
搪 *l'aːŋ
蓎 *l'aːŋ
瑭 *l'aːŋ
餹 *l'aːŋ
篖 *l'aːŋ
螗 *l'aːŋ
塘 *l'aːŋ
鶶 *l'aːŋ
赯 *l'aːŋ
磄 *l'aːŋ
溏 *l'aːŋ
傏 *l'aːŋ
鎕 *l'aːŋ
榶 *l'aːŋ
嵣 *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚 *kraːŋ
賡 *kraːŋ
鹒 *kraːŋ
康 *kʰlaːŋ
穅 *kʰlaːŋ
糠 *kʰlaːŋ
槺 *kʰlaːŋ
漮 *kʰlaːŋ
躿 *kʰlaːŋ
慷 *kʰlaːŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 庚 (“threshing tools”) + 米 (“rice”), chaff.

The derivative 糠 (kāng) refers to the original word.

Etymology[edit]

The sense "Kham" is a borrowing from Tibetan ཁམས (khams).

The sense "to look, to see" arose from mishearing of 好康 (hǎokāng, “rich; lucky; fortunate”) as 好看 (hǎokàn, “good-looking; worth seeing”) in a line of 《如果早知道男生也會被性侵》.

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • khng - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • khong - literary.
Rime
Character 康
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦岡切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/kʰɑŋ/
Wang
Li 		/kʰɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 康 康 康
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		kāng kāng tāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khang › ‹ khang › ‹ thang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[kʰ]ˁaŋ/ /*k-r̥ˁaŋ/ /*r̥ˁaŋ/
English empty tranquil; at ease name of first Shang ruler

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 康
Reading # 1/1
No. 3981
Phonetic
component 		庚
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		康
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰlaːŋ/

Definitions[edit]

康

  1. peaceful, quiet
  2. happy, healthy
  3. A surname​.
    1. (historical) A surname given to people from the Central Asian country of Kangju (康居 or 康國／康国)
  4. Kham (a historical region in Tibet)
  5. (Internet slang) Alternative form of 看 (kàn, “to look; to see”).

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 康

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

康

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. peace

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

康(やすし) • (Yasushi) 

  1. A male given name

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

康 (eumhun 편안할 강 (pyeonanhal gang))

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Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

康: Hán Nôm readings: khang, khăng, khương

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