港

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.

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 + phonetic 巷.

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

Han character

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

1. port, harbour / harbor
2. small stream
3. bay
4. Hong Kong

See also

• 津

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

港 (Yale gong2)

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Japanese

Kanji

港

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: みなと (minato)

Compounds

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

Noun

港 (hiragana みなと, romaji minato)

1. port

Pronunciation

• みなと

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

港 (Pinyin gǎng (gang3), Wade-Giles kang³)

Compounds

• 港澳
• 港币
• 港埠
• 港汊
• 港警
• 港商
• 港式
• 港台
• 港台文学
• 港湾
• 港务

• 1. abbreviation of Hongkong (香港)

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Vietnamese

Han character

港 (cảng)