恆

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See also: 恒
恆 U+6046, 恆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6046
← 恅
[U+6045] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 恇 →
[U+6047]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

恆 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 心一月一 (PMBM), four-corner 91017, composition ⿰忄亙)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 383, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10528
  • Dae Jaweon: page 714, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2294, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+6046

Chinese[edit]

trad. 恆/恒
simp. 恒
alternative forms 𢛢
𠄨
㔰

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (亙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
搄 *kɯːŋ, *kɯːŋs
縆 *kɯːŋ, *kɯːŋs
絙 *ɡoːn, *kɯːŋ
亙 *kɯːŋs
堩 *kɯːŋs
恆 *ɡɯːŋ
峘 *ɡoːn, *ɡɯːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡɯːŋ): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 亙 (OC *kɯːŋs, “partial moon”).

May have originally been written 亙.

In Small Seal Script, the 月 in 亙 was written 舟.

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Definitions[edit]

恆

  1. † (of the moon) to wax
  2. † to extend everywhere

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Note:
  • ân - vernacular;
  • hêng/hn̂g - literary.
Note: huêng5 - Chaoyang.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 恆
Mandarin Beijing /xəŋ³⁵/
Harbin /xəŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /xəŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /xəŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /xəŋ²⁴/
Zhengzhou /xəŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /xəŋ²⁴/
Xining /xə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /xəŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /xə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /xɤŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /xən²¹³/
Chengdu /xən³¹/
Guiyang /xen²¹/
Kunming /xə̃³¹/
Nanjing /xən²⁴/
Hefei /xən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /xəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /xə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦəŋ²³/
Suzhou /ɦən¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦen²¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦaŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /xʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /xən¹³/
Xiangtan /ɦən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /hɛn²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /hen¹¹/
Taoyuan /hen¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɐŋ²¹/
Nanning /hɐŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /hɐŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hiŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hɛiŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /aiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /heŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hɔŋ³¹/
/aŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 恆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 登 (129)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡登切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦəŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦəŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣəŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦəŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɣəŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɣəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣəŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		héng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hang4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 恆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		héng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hong ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ɡ]ˁəŋ/
English constant

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 恆
Reading # 1/1
No. 5126
Phonetic
component 		亙
Rime
group 		蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		恒
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡɯːŋ/

Definitions[edit]

恆

  1. constant; regular; persistent
  2. 32nd hexagram of the I Ching; “endurance” (䷟)

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai

恒

Kyūjitai

恆

Kanji[edit]

恆

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 恒)

  1. always, constant

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

恆 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune–Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

恆: Hán Nôm readings: hằng

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