桁

See also: 航

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

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 (first edition): 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡraːŋ): semantic 木 + phonetic 行 (OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héng, háng (heng², hang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄥˊ, ㄏㄤˊ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: héng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄥˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hêng2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herng
    • Tongyong Pinyin: héng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤŋ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: háng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄤˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hang2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: harng
    • Tongyong Pinyin: háng
    • Sinological 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
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /häːŋ²¹/, /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]ˁraŋ/
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

Compounds

• 帆桁
• 桁架

• 桁楊／桁杨
• 桁端

• 長桁／长桁

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Japanese

Kanji

桁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←ぎやう (gyau, historical)}; ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: けた (keta, 桁, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
桁
けた Grade: S
kun’yomi

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Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) けた [kètá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ke̞ta̠]

Noun

桁(けた) • (keta)

1. (construction) girder, crossbeam (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought):
2. (arithmetic) digit (clarification of this definition is needed)

   桁(けた)溢(あふ)れ

   ketaafure

   digit overflow

   二(に)十(じっ)進法(しんぽう)では八(はっ)千(せん)で四(よん)桁(けた)に達(たっ)する。

   Nijisshinpō de wa hassen de yon keta ni tassuru.

   In the vigesimal scale, it reaches four digits at eight thousand.

3. the stick that goes through the beads of a soroban
   • 1916, 森鷗外(もりおうがい) (Mori Ōgai) [Mori Ōgai], Takumi Kashima and Loretta Lorenz, transl., 高瀬舟(たかせぶね) (Takase-bune) [The Boat on the Takase River]‎^[1]:

     彼(かれ)と我(わ)れとの相(そう)違(い)は、いわば十露(そろ)盤(ばん)の桁(けた)が違(ちが)っているだけで、喜(き)助(すけ)のありがたがる二(に)百(ひゃく)文(もん)に相(そう)当(とう)する貯(ちょ)蓄(ちく)だに、こっちはないのである。

     Kare to ware to no sōi wa, iwaba soroban no keta ga chigatteiru dake de, Kisuke no arigatagaru nihyaku-mon ni sōtō suru chochiku da ni, kotchi wa nai no de aru.

     You can say the only difference between us is a digit on the abacus. Shobei had no such thing as the 200-mon worth of extra funds that was giving Kisuke so much pleasure.

Related terms

• (girder): 梁(はり) (hari, “beam”), 棟(むね) (mune, “ridge”)

Derived terms

• (girder): 橋(はし)桁(げた) (hashigeta, “bridge girder”)
• (digit): 桁(けた)外(はず)れ (ketahazure, “incalculable”)

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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

桁: Hán Nôm readings: hành

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