甕

See also: 瓮

Translingual

Han character

甕 (Kangxi radical 98, 瓦+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜女土弓 (YVGN), four-corner 0071₇, composition ⿱雍瓦)

Derived characters

• 𥗯, 𨇹, 𪗃

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 752, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21617
• Dae Jaweon: page 1160, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1433, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7515

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Chinese

trad.		甕/瓮
simp.		瓮

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
郺	*qoːŋʔ, *qoŋ
齆	*qoːŋs
甕	*qoːŋs
罋	*qoːŋs, *qoŋ
雍	*qoŋ, *qoŋs
邕	*qoŋ
嗈	*qoŋ
灉	*qoŋ, *qoŋs
癰	*qoŋ
廱	*qoŋ
雝	*qoŋ
壅	*qoŋ, *qoŋʔ, *qoŋs
饔	*qoŋ
噰	*qoŋ
澭	*qoŋ
擁	*qoŋ, *qoŋʔ
臃	*qoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoːŋs) : phonetic 雍 (OC *qoŋ, *qoŋs) + semantic 瓦 (“earthenware”).

Etymology

Probably Sino-Tibetan (Unger, 1999; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). STEDT reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔəw-ŋ (“pot; vat; jar”) provisionally.

Within Chinese, compare 甌 (OC *qoː, “small bowl; small cup”), 碗 (OC *qoːnʔ, “bowl”), 罌 (OC *qreːŋ, “earthen jar”), 盎 (OC *qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs, “earthen jar”), 癰 (OC *qoŋ, “carbuncle; ulcer”) (Wang, 1982; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Also compare Tibetan གཞོང (gzhong, “basin; tub; bowl”), Lepcha [script needed] (joŋ-mo, “bucket, tub”), Proto-Loloish *ʔ-loŋ² (“pot”) (Unger, 1999).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wèng (weng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ung³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): àng / òng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wòng
    • Wade–Giles: wêng⁴
    • Yale: wèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenq
    • Palladius: вэн (vɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wəŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ung³
    • Yale: ung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ung³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ung³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʊŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: àng
    • Tâi-lô: àng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: axng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /aŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /aŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /aŋ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: òng
    • Tâi-lô: òng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oxng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔŋ⁴¹/

Note:

• àng - vernacular;
• òng - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: 'uwngH

Rime
Character	甕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏貢切
Baxter	'uwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔuŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəwŋH/
Li Rong	/ʔuŋH/
Wang Li	/uŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔuŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wèng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ung3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤoŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	甕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wèng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔuwngH ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁoŋ-s/
English	earthen jar
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	甕
Reading #	1/1
No.	15401
Phonetic component	邕
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	瓮
Old Chinese	/*qoːŋs/
Notes	同甕見易

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甕

1. urn; pottery jar
2. a surname

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02619
• “甕”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

甕

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. jug, cistern

Readings

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: おう (ō)
• Kun: かめ (kame, 甕); みか (mika, 甕); みかわ (mikawa, 甕); もたい (motai, 甕); たしらか (tashiraka, 甕)

Compounds

• 浅甕(さらけ) (sarake)
• 斎甕(ゆか) (yuka)
• 斎甕物(ゆかもの) (yukamono)
• 甕菜(ようさい) (yōsai)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
甕
かめ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative forms

• 瓶

Noun

甕(かめ) • (kame) 

1. earthenware pot

Derived terms

• 合(あ)わせ口甕棺(ぐちかめかん) (awaseguchikamekan)
• 甕棺(かめかん) (kamekan)
• 甕(かめ)の蓋(ふた) (kame no futa)
• こわれ甕(がめ) (kowaregame)
• 酒甕(さかがめ) (sakagame)
• 酢甕(すがめ) (sugame)
• 水甕(みずがめ) (mizugame)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
甕
みか Hyōgai
kun'yomi

御 (mi-, “honorific prefix”) +‎ か (ka, “vessel”)

Noun

甕(みか) • (mika) 

1. large earthenware pot for brewing sake

Derived terms

• 武甕槌神(たけみかづちのかみ) (Takemikazuchi no Kami)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
甕
みかわ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

甕(みかわ) • (mikawa) 

1. large earthenware pot for brewing sake

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
甕
もたい Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative forms

• 瓮

Noun

甕(もたい) • (motai) ^{←もたひ (motafi)?}

1. earthenware vessel for sake, etc

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
甕
たしらか Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

甕(たしらか) • (tashiraka) 

1. earthenware vessel used by the emperor to clean his hands

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Korean

Hanja

甕 • (ong) (hangeul 옹, revised ong, McCune–Reischauer ong, Yale ong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 甕 (úng, ống, ổng)

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