杭

杭 U+676D, 杭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-676D ← 杬 [U+676C] CJK Unified Ideographs 杮 → [U+676E]

Translingual

Han character

杭 (radical 75 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木卜竹弓 (DYHN), four-corner 4091₇, composition ⿰木亢)

References

• KangXi: page 513, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14494
• Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1174, character 3
• Unihan data for U+676D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		杭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亢) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
笐	*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs
亢	*kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs
牨	*kaːŋ
苀	*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
魧	*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
迒	*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
邟	*kʰaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
忼	*kʰaːŋʔ, *qʰaːŋ
骯	*kʰaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *qaːŋ
抗	*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
炕	*kʰaːŋs, *qʰaːŋ
伉	*kʰaːŋs
閌	*kʰaːŋs
犺	*kʰaːŋs
蚢	*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
砊	*kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
阬	*kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
頏	*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
航	*ɡaːŋ
杭	*ɡaːŋ
沆	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
肮	*ɡaːŋ
吭	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋs
秔	*kraːŋ
坑	*kʰraːŋ
劥	*kʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaːŋ): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 亢 (OC *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs).

Originally a variant of 抗 (OC *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ, “to fight against”).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): háng (hang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hong⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): hâng / hông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: háng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hangr
    • IPA ^(key): /xɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hong⁴
    • Yale: hòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hong⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /hɔːŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hâng
    • Tâi-lô: hâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: haang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /haŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /haŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /haŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /haŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /haŋ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hông
    • Tâi-lô: hông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoong
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔŋ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɑŋ/▼

Rime
Character	杭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡郎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣɑŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	háng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[m]-[ɡ]ˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	杭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	háng
Middle Chinese	‹ hang ›
Old Chinese	/*[m]-[ɡ]ˤaŋ/
English	to go by boat
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	杭
Reading #	1/1
No.	7383
Phonetic component	亢
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	航
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːŋ/

Definitions

杭

1. ^† Alternative form of 航 (háng, “boat; ship”).
2. ^† Alternative form of 航 (háng, “to cross a stream; to ferry”).
3. ^† Alternative form of 航 (háng, “to sail; to navigate”).
4. (dialectal) suddenly; all of a sudden
5. Short for 杭州 (Hángzhōu, “Hangzhou”).
6. A surname​.

Compounds

• 上有天堂，下有蘇杭／上有天堂，下有苏杭 (shàng yǒu tiāntáng, xià yǒu Sūháng)
• 杭剪
• 杭子
• 杭州 (Hángzhōu)
• 杭愛山／杭爱山

• 杭筏
• 杭紗／杭纱
• 杭紬／杭䌷
• 杭絕／杭绝

• 杭菊
• 杭越
• 榔杭
• 餘杭／余杭 (Yúháng)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kāng (kang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄤ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: k'ang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kang
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

杭

1. ^† Alternative form of 康 (kāng, “broad road”).

   杭莊 / 杭庄  ―  kāngzhuāng  ―  broad road

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kàng (kang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄤˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: k'ang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kanq
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɑŋ⁵¹/

Definitions

杭

1. ^† Alternative form of 抗 (kàng, “to resist; to fight”).
2. ^† Alternative form of 抗 (kàng, “to raise; to lift up”).
3. ^† Alternative form of 抗 (kàng, “high”).

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Japanese

Kanji

杭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: わたる (wataru), くい (kui)

Noun

杭 (hiragana くい, rōmaji kui)

1. stake, pile, post

Alternative forms

• 杙

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Korean

Hanja

杭 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune-Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

杭 (cáng, hàng, khiêng)

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