杏

See also: 呆

杏 U+674F, 杏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-674F ← 李 [U+674E] CJK Unified Ideographs 材 → [U+6750]

Translingual

Han character

杏 (radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木口 (DR), four-corner 4060₉, composition ⿱木口)

See also

• 呆

References

• KangXi: page 511, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14461
• Dae Jaweon: page 896, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1160, character 4
• Unihan data for U+674F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		杏

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (杏) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
杏	*ɡraːŋʔ
莕	*ɡraːŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xìng (xing⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hang⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): hěng / hēng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋ
    • Wade–Giles: hsing⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shinq
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (杏兒／杏儿)⁺
    • Pinyin: xìngr
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˋㄦ
    • Wade–Giles: hsingrh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shienglh
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕjɤ̃ɻ⁵¹/

Note: xìngr - the fruit.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hang⁶
    • Yale: hahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hang⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: heng⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hěng
    • Tâi-lô: hǐng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɪŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hēng
    • Tâi-lô: hīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: heng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hiɪŋ²²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 杏
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕiŋ⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ɕiŋ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/ɕiŋ⁵³/
	Jinan	/ɕiŋ²¹/
	Qingdao	/ɕiŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/ɕiŋ³¹²/ /xəŋ³¹²/
	Xi'an	/xəŋ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/xə̃²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/xəŋ¹³/ /ɕiŋ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕĩn¹³/
	Ürümqi	/xɤŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/ɕin³⁵/
	Chengdu	/xən¹³/
	Guiyang	/ɕin²¹³/
	Kunming	/ɕĩ¹/
	Nanjing	/ɕin⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/ɕin⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕiəŋ⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/ɕiŋ³⁵/ /ɕie̞³⁵/ ～核
	Hohhot	/ɕĩŋ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦã²³/
	Suzhou	/ɦã³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɦin¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ɦiɛ³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕiʌ̃²²/
	Tunxi	/xɛ²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/ɕin⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɕin⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕin²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/hen⁵³/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hɐŋ²²/
	Nanning	/hɐŋ²²/
	Hong Kong	/hɐŋ²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hiŋ²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/hɛiŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xaiŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/heŋ³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/xeŋ³⁵/ 俗

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦˠæŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	杏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	何梗切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠæŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚaŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣaŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨjŋX/
Li Rong	/ɣɐŋX/
Wang Li	/ɣɐŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɐŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hèng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.[ɡ]ˤraŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡraːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	杏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xìng
Middle Chinese	‹ hængX ›
Old Chinese	/*C.[ɡ]ˤraŋʔ/
English	apricot (tree)
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	杏
Reading #	1/1
No.	13879
Phonetic component	杏
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	杏
Old Chinese	/*ɡraːŋʔ/
Notes	說文可省聲

Definitions

杏

1. apricot

Synonyms

• 杏子 (xìngzi)

Compounds

• 土杏兒／土杏儿
• 巴旦杏 (bādànxìng)
• 望杏瞻榆
• 望杏瞻蒲
• 杏乾兒／杏干儿
• 杏仁 (xìngrén)
• 杏仁槽
• 杏仁油
• 杏仁粉
• 杏仁茶 (xìngrénchá)
• 杏仁豆腐 (xìngrén dòufu)
• 杏壇／杏坛

• 杏實／杏实
• 杏月 (Xìngyuè)
• 杏林 (xìnglín)
• 杏林春暖
• 杏核兒／杏核儿
• 杏梅
• 杏眼
• 杏眼圓睜／杏眼圆睁
• 杏紅／杏红
• 杏脯
• 杏臉／杏脸

• 杏臉桃腮／杏脸桃腮
• 杏花
• 杏花村
• 杏雨梨雲／杏雨梨云
• 杏靨／杏靥
• 杏黃／杏黄
• 桃羞杏讓／桃羞杏让
• 桃腮杏臉／桃腮杏脸
• 紅杏出牆／红杏出墙
• 紅杏尚書／红杏尚书
• 銀杏／银杏 (yínxìng)

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Japanese

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Kanji

杏

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: ぎょう (gyō)
• Kan’on: こう (kō)
• Tōon: あん (an)
• Kan’yōon: きょう (kyō)
• Kun: あんず (anzu, 杏)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
杏
あんず Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あんず [àńzú] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [ã̠nd͡zɨᵝ]

Noun

杏 (hiragana あんず, katakana アンズ, rōmaji anzu)

1. Alternative spelling of 杏子 (“apricot”)

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Korean

Hanja

杏 • (haeng) (hangeul 행, revised haeng, McCune–Reischauer haeng, Yale hayng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

杏 (hạnh)

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