暢

暢 U+66A2, 暢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66A2 ← 暡 [U+66A1] CJK Unified Ideographs 暣 → [U+66A3]

See also: 畅

Translingual

Han character

暢 (radical 72 日+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中中日一竹 (LLAMH), four-corner 5602₇, composition ⿰申昜)

1. smoothly, freely, unrestrained

References

• KangXi: page 498, character 49
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14095
• Dae Jaweon: page 867, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1529, character 10
• Unihan data for U+66A2

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Chinese

trad.		暢
simp.		畅
alt. forms		𣈱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
湯	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪	*l̥ʰaːŋ
薚	*l̥ʰaːŋ
簜	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪	*l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒	*l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩	*l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙	*l̥ʰaːŋs
啺	*l'aːŋ
碭	*l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸	*l'aːŋʔ
愓	*l'aːŋʔ
璗	*l'aːŋʔ
崵	*l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿	*l'aːŋs
暢	*l̥ʰaŋs
畼	*l̥ʰaŋs
腸	*l'aŋ
場	*l'aŋ
傷	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤	*hljaŋ
觴	*hljaŋ
慯	*hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓	*hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲	*hljaŋ
陽	*laŋ
楊	*laŋ
揚	*laŋ
瘍	*laŋ
煬	*laŋ, *laŋs
鍚	*laŋ
暘	*laŋ
颺	*laŋ, *laŋs
昜	*laŋ
輰	*laŋ
敭	*laŋ
鰑	*laŋ
諹	*laŋ, *laŋs
瑒	*laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉	*laŋ
餳	*ljaːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chàng (chang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng³
• Min Nan (POJ): thiòng / thiàng / chhióng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chanq
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng³
    • Yale: cheung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng³
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰœːŋ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiòng
    • Tâi-lô: thiòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tioxng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɔŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɔŋ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiàng
    • Tâi-lô: thiàng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiaxng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiaŋ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhióng
    • Tâi-lô: tshióng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chiorng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʈʰɨɐŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	暢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	丑亮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰɨɐŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰiɐŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰiɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰɨaŋH/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiaŋH/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭaŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶʰi̯aŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chàng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	暢
Reading #	1/1
No.	14577
Phonetic component	昜
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	悵
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰaŋs/

Definitions

暢

1. smooth, free, unrestrained

Compounds

• 暢快／畅快 (chàngkuài)
• 暢想／畅想 (chàngxiǎng)
• 暢所欲言／畅所欲言
• 暢通／畅通 (chàngtōng)

• 暢遊／畅游 (chàngyóu)
• 暢銷／畅销 (chàngxiāo)
• 暢銷書／畅销书 (chàngxiāoshū)
• 流暢／流畅 (liúchàng)

• 舒暢／舒畅 (shūchàng)
• 通暢／通畅 (tōngchàng)
• 順暢／顺畅 (shùnchàng)

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #10568”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

暢

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: ちょう (chō)
• Kun: のびる (nobiru)

Proper noun

暢 (hiragana とおる, rōmaji Tōru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

暢 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: sướng

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