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U+786C, 硬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-786C

[U+786B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+786D]

Translingual

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Stroke order
12 strokes

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 112, +7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一口一中大 (MRMLK), four-corner 11646, composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 831, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24230
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1247, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2432, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+786C

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋɡraːŋs, *ŋɡraːŋs): semantic + phonetic (OC *kraːŋ, *kraːŋs).

Etymology 1

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms

Pronunciation

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Note: ngaang6-2 - alternative pronunciation for "certainly".
Note:
  • ngī/ngǐ/ngēe/ngē - vernacular (“hard; stiff; tough; obstinately; arduous”);
  • gēng/gěng - literary.
Note:
  • nge6 - vernacular;
  • ngeng7 - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /iŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /iŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /iŋ⁵³/
Jinan /iŋ²¹/
Qingdao /iŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /əŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /niŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /ȵiə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /iŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /ȵĩn¹³/
Ürümqi /ȵiŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /ŋən³⁵/
Chengdu /ŋən¹³/
Guiyang /ŋen²¹³/
/in²¹³/ 新,少
Kunming /ə̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ən⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʐən⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /niəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ȵiŋ³⁵/
/ȵie̞³⁵/
Hohhot /nĩŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ŋã²³/
Suzhou /ŋã³¹/
Hangzhou /ŋɑŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /ŋiɛ²²/
Hui Shexian /ŋʌ̃³²⁴/
/ŋɛ²²/
Tunxi /ȵiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ŋən¹¹/
Xiangtan /ŋən²¹/
Gan Nanchang /ŋɑŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /ŋaŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /ŋɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ŋaŋ²²/
Nanning /ŋaŋ²²/
Hong Kong /ŋaŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /giŋ²²/
/ŋi²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ŋaiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ŋaiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /ŋẽ³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ŋɛ³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (117)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter ngeangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋˠɛŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋᵚæŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋɐŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋəɨjŋH/
Li
Rong
/ŋɛŋH/
Wang
Li
/ŋæŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ŋæŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
èng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ngang6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 880 881
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋɡraːŋs/ /*ŋɡraːŋs/
Notes

Definitions

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  1. hard (resistant to pressure)
      ―  yìng  ―  hardwood
  2. stiff; inflexible
      ―  jiāngyìng  ―  stiff; rigid
  3. tough; strong; firm
    心腸心肠  ―  xīncháng yìng  ―  to be tough; to be hard-hearted
  4. good (in terms of quality or ability); able (of a person)
    牌子  ―  Páizǐ yìng.  ―  The trademark is good.
  5. obstinately; with difficulty; forcibly; resolutely
    媽媽一起奶奶 [MSC, trad.]
    妈妈一起奶奶 [MSC, simp.]
    yìng chán zhù māmā yīqǐ qù kàn nǎinǎi. [Pinyin]
    I forcibly bug my mother for us to visit grandmother together.
  6. (Cantonese, Teochew) certainly; definitely; of course
  7. (Hokkien) arduous; formidable; onerous
  8. (Huizhou) thick; viscous
  9. (slang) to become hard; to have an erection
Synonyms
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  • (hard):
  • (thick):
  • (to have an erection):
Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) of hard): (ruǎn)

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Probably an irregular reading from etymology 1.[1]

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. (Eastern Min, derogatory, of a person) to die; to croak
Synonyms
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References

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  1. ^ R. S. Maclay, C. C. Baldwin, editors (1929), “ngĕng”, in Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect, third edition, Foochow, page 1335
  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 冯爱珍 [Feng, Aizhen], editor (1998), “[ŋɛiŋ˥]”, in 福州方言词典 [Dictionary of the Fuzhou Dialect] (in Chinese), Nanjing: 江苏教育出版社 (Jiangsu Educational Press), →ISBN, page 343.
  • 李如龙 [Li, Rulong], 梁玉璋 [Liang, Yuzhang], 邹光椿 [Zou, Guangchun], 陈泽平 [Chen, Zeping], editors (1994), “”, in 福州方言词典 [Dictionary of the Fuzhou Dialect] (in Chinese), Fuzhou: 福建人民出版社 [Fujian People's Publishing House], →ISBN, page 230.

  • Li Zhuqing, editor (1998), “”, in Fuzhou-English Dictionary (in Chinese), Kensington, MD: Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 176.

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

  1. Solid, hard, firm.

Readings

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  • Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)
  • Kan-on: ごう ()
  • Kan’yō-on: こう (, Jōyō)
  • Kun: かたい (katai, 硬い, Jōyō)

Compounds

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Korean

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun 굳을 (gudeul gyeong))

  1. hanja form? of (harden, stiffen)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: ngạnh

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