糠

See also: 穅

Translingual

Han character

糠 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火木戈中水 (FDILE), four-corner 9093₂, composition ⿰米康)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 912, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27105
• Dae Jaweon: page 1339, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3159, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7CE0

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Chinese

trad.		糠
simp. #		糠
alternative forms		穅／糠 粇 variant and 2nd round simp.

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
唐	*ɡl'aːŋ
煻	*l'aːŋ
糖	*l'aːŋ
搪	*l'aːŋ
蓎	*l'aːŋ
瑭	*l'aːŋ
餹	*l'aːŋ
篖	*l'aːŋ
螗	*l'aːŋ
塘	*l'aːŋ
鶶	*l'aːŋ
赯	*l'aːŋ
磄	*l'aːŋ
溏	*l'aːŋ
傏	*l'aːŋ
鎕	*l'aːŋ
榶	*l'aːŋ
嵣	*l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚	*kraːŋ
賡	*kraːŋ
鹒	*kraːŋ
康	*kʰlaːŋ
穅	*kʰlaːŋ
糠	*kʰlaːŋ
槺	*kʰlaːŋ
漮	*kʰlaːŋ
躿	*kʰlaːŋ
慷	*kʰlaːŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kāng (kang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hong¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khong / khng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kang
    • Wade–Giles: kʻang¹
    • Yale: kāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kang
    • Palladius: кан (kan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hong¹
    • Yale: hōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khong
    • Tâi-lô: khong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qofng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khng
    • Tâi-lô: khng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qngf
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰŋ̍⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰŋ̍³³/

Note:

• khong - literary;
• khng - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: khang

Rime
Character	糠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦岡切
Baxter	khang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰaŋ/
Li Rong	/kʰɑŋ/
Wang Li	/kʰɑŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hong1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰlaːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	糠
Reading #	1/1
No.	3983
Phonetic component	庚
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	康
Old Chinese	/*kʰlaːŋ/
Notes	俗同穅

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 糠

1. chaff; bran; husks
2. spongy

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Japanese

Kanji

糠

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: ぬか (nuka, 糠)

Compounds

Compounds

• 粃糠(ひこう) (hikō): husks and bran

Kanji in this term
糠
ぬか Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

糠(ぬか) • (nuka) 

1. rice bran

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Korean

Hanja

糠 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 糠 (khang)

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