浠

Translingual

Han character

浠 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水大大月 (EKKB) or 難水大大月 (XEKKB), four-corner 3412₇, composition ⿰氵希)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 624, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17466
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1629, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6D60

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		浠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (希) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
桸	*hral, *hlɯl
郗	*l̥ʰɯl
絺	*l̥ʰɯl
脪	*l̥ʰɯl, *hrɯnʔ, *hlɯns
瓻	*l̥ʰɯl
希	*hlɯl
晞	*hlɯl
莃	*hlɯl
鵗	*hlɯl
稀	*hlɯl
睎	*hlɯl
豨	*hlɯl, *hlɯlʔ
悕	*hlɯl
俙	*hlɯl, *hlɯlʔ
欷	*hlɯl, *hlɯls
浠	*hlɯl
唏	*hlɯlʔ, *hlɯls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hlɯl) : semantic 氵 (“river”) + phonetic 希 (OC *hlɯl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hei¹
    • Yale: hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hlɯl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	浠
Reading #	1/1
No.	13261
Phonetic component	希
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	希
Old Chinese	/*hlɯl/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 浠

1. Used in 浠水 (Xīshuǐ) (name of a river and a county in Huanggang, Hubei, China)
2. a surname

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Vietnamese

Han character

浠: Hán Nôm readings: hơ

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