港

港 U+6E2F, 港 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E2F ← 渮 [U+6E2E] CJK Unified Ideographs 渰 → [U+6E30]

港 U+2F908, 港 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F908 ← 洴 [U+2F907] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 湮 → [U+2F909]

See also: 巻

Translingual

Shinjitai	港
Simplified	港
Traditional	港

Alternative forms

Note that, as in 巷, in Chinese, the bottom is 巳, while in Japanese, the bottom is 己.

Han character

港 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水廿金山 (ETCU), four-corner 3411₇, composition ⿰氵巷)

References

• KangXi: page 635, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17783
• Dae Jaweon: page 1042, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1668, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6E2F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		港

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (共) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
港	*kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs
巷	*ɡroːŋs
衖	*ɡroːŋs
鬨	*ɡroːŋs, *ɡloːŋs
烘	*qʰloːŋ, *qʰloːŋs, *ɡoːŋ, *ɡloːŋs
洪	*ɡloːŋ
鉷	*ɡloːŋ
谼	*ɡloːŋ
葓	*ɡoːŋ
哄	*ɡloːŋs
蕻	*ɡloːŋs
恭	*kloŋ
供	*kloŋ, *kloŋs
龔	*kloŋ
珙	*kloŋ, *kloŋʔ
共	*kloŋ, *ɡloŋs
髸	*kloŋ
拱	*kloŋʔ
拲	*kloŋʔ, *kloɡ
蛬	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
栱	*kloŋʔ
輁	*kloŋʔ, *ɡloŋ
舼	*ɡloŋ
輂	*kloɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs): semantic 氵 + phonetic 巷 (OC *ɡroːŋs).

Ideogrammic compound (會意) proposed as alternative: a harbor is a road by the water.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǎng (gang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kóng
• Min Dong (BUC): gē̤ng
• Min Nan (POJ): káng
• Wu (Wiktionary): kaan (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄤˇ
    • Wade-Giles: kang³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaang
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gong²
    • Yale: góng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong²
    • IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kóng
    • Hakka Romanization System: gong`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gong³
    • IPA: /koŋ³¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gē̤ng
    • IPA ^(key): /køyŋ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: káng
    • Tâi-lô: káng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: karng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kaŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kaŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kaŋ⁴¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: kaan (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑ̃³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠʌŋ^X/, /ɦuŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	港	港
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	江 (9)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	I
Fanqie	古項切	胡貢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠʌŋX/	/ɦuŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚɔŋX/	/ɦuŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɔŋX/	/ɣuŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨwŋX/	/ɦəwŋH/
Li Rong	/kɔŋX/	/ɣuŋH/
Wang Li	/kɔŋX/	/ɣuŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɔŋX/	/ɣuŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiǎng	hòng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kroːŋʔ/, /*ɡloːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	港	港
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4150	4163
Phonetic component	共	共
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	講	哄
Old Chinese	/*kroːŋʔ/	/*ɡloːŋs/
Notes		見馬融賦

Definitions

港

1. port; harbour
2. Short for 香港 (Xiānggǎng, “Hong Kong”).

Compounds

• 不凍港／不冻港
• 入港 (rùgǎng)
• 內港／内港
• 出港 (chūgǎng)
• 北方大港
• 北港鎮／北港镇
• 千足港條／千足港条
• 卡港會議／卡港会议
• 商港 (shānggǎng)
• 塘沽新港
• 塞得港
• 外港
• 太子港 (Tàizǐgǎng)
• 安平港
• 封港
• 工業港／工业港
• 巨港 (Jùgǎng)
• 布雷爾港／布雷尔港
• 引港 (yǐngǎng)
• 新港鄉／新港乡
• 斷港絕潢／断港绝潢
• 汊港
• 河口港

• 海港 (hǎigǎng)
• 海港檢疫／海港检疫
• 港九
• 港劇／港剧 (gǎngjù)
• 港務／港务 (gǎngwù)
• 港務局／港务局 (gǎngwùjú)
• 港口 (gǎngkǒu)
• 港商
• 港埠 (gǎngbù)
• 港客
• 港島／港岛 (Gǎngdǎo)
• 港市 (gǎngshì)
• 港幣／港币 (gǎngbì)
• 港式 (gǎngshì)
• 港星 (gǎngxīng)
• 港汊
• 港澳 (Gǎng-Ào)
• 港灣／港湾 (gǎngwān)
• 港片
• 港紙／港纸
• 港臺／港台 (Gǎng-Tái)
• 港臺文學／港台文学
• 港警

• 港都
• 漁港／渔港 (yúgǎng)
• 珍珠港 (Zhēnzhūgǎng)
• 自由港 (zìyóugǎng)
• 臺中港／台中港
• 虎門港／虎门港
• 西班牙港 (Xībānyágǎng)
• 貔子窩港／貔子窝港
• 超深水港
• 軍港／军港 (jūngǎng)
• 通商港
• 連雲港／连云港 (Liányúngǎng)
• 避風港／避风港 (bìfēnggǎng)
• 領港／领港
• 香港 (Xiānggǎng)
• 香港腳／香港脚 (xiānggǎngjiǎo)
• 香港衫
• 馬尾港／马尾港
• 馬賽港／马赛港
• 高雄港
• 鹿港
• 黃石港／黄石港

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Japanese

Kanji

港

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←こう (kou, historical)}
• Kan’on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: みなと (minato, 港, Jōyō)

Compounds

Derived terms

• 港澳
• 港湾
• 漁港
• 空港
• 軍港
• 出港
• 要港
• 香港

Etymology

Kanji in this term
港
みなと Grade: 3
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese: 水 (み) (mi, “water”) + な (na, possessive particle) + 門 (と) (to, “gate”). Attested in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki as 水門.

Alternate forms

• 湊

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) みなと [mìnátó] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [mina̠to̞]

Noun

港 (hiragana みなと, rōmaji minato)

1. port

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Korean

Hanja

港 • (hang) (hangeul 항, McCune-Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

港 (cảng)

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