桁

桁 U+6841, 桁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6841 ← 桀 [U+6840] CJK Unified Ideographs 桂 → [U+6842]

See also: 航

Translingual

Han character

桁 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木竹人弓 (DHON), four-corner 4192₁, composition ⿰木行)

References

• KangXi: page 525, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14754
• Dae Jaweon: page 913, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1201, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6841

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		桁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (行) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
筕	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
桁	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ
行	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
胻	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs
衡	*ɡraːŋ
蘅	*ɡraːŋ
珩	*ɡraːŋ
洐	*ɡraːŋ
荇	*ɡraːŋʔ
絎	*ɡraːŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héng, háng (heng², hang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄥˊ, ㄏㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haang⁴, hang⁴, hong⁴, hong⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: héng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hengr
    • IPA ^(key): /xɤŋ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: háng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hangr
    • IPA ^(key): /xɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: haang⁴, hang⁴, hong⁴, hong⁶
    • Yale: hàahng, hàhng, hòhng, hohng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haang⁴, hang⁴, hong⁴, hong⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hang⁴, heng⁴, hong⁴, hong⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /hɑːŋ²¹/, /hɐŋ²¹/, /hɔːŋ²¹/, /hɔːŋ²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦɑŋ/, /ɦˠæŋ/▼

Rime
Character	桁	桁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	胡郎切	戸庚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑŋ/	/ɦˠæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑŋ/	/ɦᵚaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑŋ/	/ɣaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaŋ/	/ɦaɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣɑŋ/	/ɣɐŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣɑŋ/	/ɣɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑŋ/	/ɣɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	háng	héng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤraŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːŋ/, /*ɡraːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	桁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	héng
Middle Chinese	‹ hæng ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˤraŋ/
English	wooden lid
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	桁	桁
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13863	13870
Phonetic component	行	行
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	航	行
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːŋ/	/*ɡraːŋ/

Definitions

桁

1. crossbeams of a roof

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Japanese

Kanji

桁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: けた (keta, 桁, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

桁 • (hang, hyeong) (hangeul 항, 형, revised hang, hyeong, McCune-Reischauer hang, hyŏng, Yale hang, hyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: hành

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