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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		康

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kāng (kang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hong¹
• Min Nan (POJ): khng / khong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: k'ang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kang
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hong¹
    • Yale: hōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /hɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khng / khong
    • Tâi-lô: khng / khong
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰŋ̍⁴⁴/, /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰŋ̍³⁴/, /kʰɔŋ³⁴/
  • Note: khng - vernacular, khong - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (康, reconstructed)
Character (康), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 溪 (29) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 苦岡切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʰɑŋ/	/kʰɑŋ/	/kʰɑŋ/	/kʰɑŋ/	/kʰaŋ/	/kʰɑŋ/	/kʰɑŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (康, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
康								kāng								‹ khang ›								/*[kʰ]ˤaŋ/								empty
康								kāng								‹ khang ›								/*k-r̥ ˤaŋ/								tranquil; at ease
康								tāng								‹ thang ›								/*r̥ ˤaŋ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
康					3981					庚					陽					0					康					/*kʰlaːŋ/

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

康

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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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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Vietnamese

Han character

康 (khang, khăng, khương)

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