纊

See also: 絋 and 纩

Translingual

Traditional	纊
Shinjitai (extended)	絋
Simplified	纩

Han character

纊 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈廿金 (VFITC), four-corner 2093₂, composition ⿰糹廣)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 942, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28033
• Dae Jaweon: page 1382, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3464, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7E8A

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Chinese

trad.		纊
simp.		纩
alternative forms		絖／𬘢 絋 (calligraphic variant)

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
僙	*kʷaːŋ
廣	*kʷaːŋʔ
鄺	*kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
懬	*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
爌	*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
曠	*kʰʷaːŋs
矌	*kʰʷaːŋs
壙	*kʰʷaːŋs
纊	*kʰʷaːŋs
黃	*ɡʷaːŋ
璜	*ɡʷaːŋ
潢	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
簧	*ɡʷaːŋ
癀	*ɡʷaːŋ
鱑	*ɡʷaːŋ
獚	*ɡʷaːŋ
蟥	*ɡʷaːŋ
趪	*ɡʷaːŋ
櫎	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
擴	*ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
瀇	*qʷaːŋʔ
獷	*kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
觵	*kʷraːŋ
礦	*kʷraːŋʔ
鑛	*kʷraːŋʔ
穬	*kʷraːŋʔ
橫	*ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ
黌	*ɡʷraːŋ
鐄	*ɡʷraːŋ
嚝	*qʰʷraːŋ
彉	*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
彍	*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuàng (kuang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwong³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuàng
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuang⁴
    • Yale: kwàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuanq
    • Palladius: куан (kuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kwong³
    • Yale: kwong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɔːŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: khwangH

Rime
Character	纊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦謗切
Baxter	khwangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰwɑŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷɑŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwaŋH/
Li Rong	/kʰuɑŋH/
Wang Li	/kʰuɑŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰwɑŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fong3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷʰˤaŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷaːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	纊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuàng
Middle Chinese	‹ khwangH ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷʰˁaŋ-s/
English	fine floss silk; quilted
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	纊
Reading #	1/1
No.	5377
Phonetic component	黄
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	曠
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷaːŋs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 纊

1. (literary) silk wadding; silk floss
2. ^† silkworm cocoon
3. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 曠／旷 (kuàng, “vast; broad”).
4. ^† Classifier for eighty threads.

References

• “纊”, 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

Shinjitai	絋
Kyūjitai	纊

Kanji

纊

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 絋)

1. cotton
2. silk

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: わた (wata, 纊); わたいれ (wataire, 纊いれ)
• Nanori: ひろ (hiro)

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Korean

Hanja

纊 • (gwang) (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune–Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

1. cotton
2. padded clothes
3. broad, wide (same as 曠)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 纊 (khoáng)

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