廾

See also: 廿

廾 U+5EFE, 廾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EFE ← 廽 [U+5EFD] CJK Unified Ideographs 廿 → [U+5EFF]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

廾 (radical 55, 廾+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 十十 (JJ) or XX十十 (XXJJ), four-corner 4400₀, composition ⿻丿十)

1. Kangxi radical #55, ⼶.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/廾
• 𧘬, 灷, 𬌪, 𫌲, 𫙐, 𬶽, 戒

References

• KangXi: page 353, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9583
• Dae Jaweon: page 668, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 513, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5EFE

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		廾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 廾
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǒng (gong³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kiúng
• Min Nan (POJ): kiong / kióng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: gǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥˇ
    • Wade–Giles: kung³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goong
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gung²
    • Yale: gúng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gung²
    • IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiúng
    • Hakka Romanization System: giung`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: giung³
    • IPA: /ki̯uŋ³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiong / kióng
    • Tâi-lô: kiong / kióng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiofng, kiorng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiɔŋ⁴⁴/, /kiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɔŋ³³/, /kiɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɔŋ⁴⁴/, /kiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiɔŋ⁴⁴/, /kiɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɔŋ⁴⁴/, /kiɔŋ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨoŋ/, /kɨoŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	廾	廾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	九容切	居悚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨoŋ/	/kɨoŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/kioŋ/	/kioŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/kioŋ/	/kioŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuawŋ/	/kuawŋX/
Li Rong	/kioŋ/	/kioŋX/
Wang Li	/kĭwoŋ/	/kĭwoŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯woŋ/	/ki̯woŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiōng	jiǒng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*k(r)oŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kloŋ/, /*kloŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	廾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǒng
Middle Chinese	‹ kjowngX ›
Old Chinese	/*k(r)oŋʔ/
English	join the hands
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	廾	廾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4148	4149
Phonetic component	廾	廾
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	恭	拱
Old Chinese	/*kloŋ/	/*kloŋʔ/

Definitions

廾

1. to clasp one's hands

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 廾 – see 廿 (“twenty”). (This character, 廾, is a variant form of 廿.)

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Japanese

Kanji

廾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. twenty radical
2. two hands

Readings

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: きょう (kyō)^{←きよう (kyou, historical)}
• Kun: ささげる (sasageru, 廾げる)

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Korean

Hanja

廾 • (gong)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 공 (revised: gong, McCune–Reischauer: kong, Yale: kong)
  • Name (hangeul): 받들 (revised: batdeul)

1. two hands
2. KangXi radical 55

References

• Naver Hanja Dictionary

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Vietnamese

Han character

廾 (trấp, trập, củng)

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References

• Nom Foundation