翔

翔 U+7FD4, 翔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FD4 ← 翓 [U+7FD3] CJK Unified Ideographs 翕 → [U+7FD5]

Translingual

Han character

翔 (radical 124, 羽+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿手尸一一 (TQSMM), four-corner 8752₀, composition ⿰羊羽)

Derived characters

• 𦤥

References

• KangXi: page 956, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28689
• Dae Jaweon: page 1402, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3348, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7FD4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		翔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
样	*ʔslaːŋ, *laŋ
佯	*zlaŋ, *laŋ
詳	*ljaŋ, *laŋ
洋	*ljaŋ, *laŋ
翔	*ljaŋ
庠	*ljaŋ
祥	*ljaŋ
痒	*ljaŋ, *laŋʔ
姜	*klaŋ
羌	*kʰlaŋ
蜣	*kʰlaŋ
猐	*kʰlaŋ
唴	*kʰlaŋs
羊	*laŋ
徉	*laŋ
烊	*laŋ
蛘	*laŋ, *laŋʔ
眻	*laŋ, *laŋs
鴹	*laŋ
恙	*laŋs
羕	*laŋs
樣	*laŋs
漾	*laŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljaŋ): phonetic 羊 (OC *laŋ) + semantic 羽 (“feathers”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiáng (xiang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): siông / siâng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyang
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕjɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng⁴
    • Yale: chèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰœ̽ːŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siông
    • Tâi-lô: siông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sioong
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /ɕiɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɔŋ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siâng
    • Tâi-lô: siâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siaang
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiaŋ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /zɨɐŋ/

Rime
Character	翔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似羊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/ziaŋ/
Wang Li	/zĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiáng

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.[ɢ]aŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	翔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiáng
Middle Chinese	‹ zjang ›
Old Chinese	/*s.[ɢ]aŋ/
English	fly back and forth; soar
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	翔
Reading #	1/1
No.	14526
Phonetic component	羊
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	詳
Old Chinese	/*ljaŋ/

Definitions

翔

1. to fly; to soar
2. (Internet slang) shit

   吃翔  ―  chīxiáng  ―  to eat shit

Compounds

• 回翔
• 徊翔
• 滑翔 (huáxiáng)
• 滑翔機／滑翔机 (huáxiángjī)
• 滑翔翼
• 翔子
• 翔安 (Xiáng'ān)
• 翔實／翔实 (xiángshí)

• 翔步 (xiángbù)
• 翔洽
• 翔翔
• 翔舞
• 翔貴／翔贵
• 翔踊
• 翔集
• 翔鳳／翔凤 (Xiángfèng)

• 翔鴻／翔鸿
• 翱翔 (áoxiáng)
• 迴翔／回翔
• 飛翔／飞翔 (fēixiáng)
• 高翔遠引／高翔远引
• 高飛遠翔／高飞远翔
• 鸞翔鳳翥／鸾翔凤翥 (luánxiáng fèngzhù)
• 鸞翔鳳集／鸾翔凤集 (luánxiáng fèngjí)

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Japanese

Kanji

翔

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. soar

Readings

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: かける (kakeru, 翔る)

Compounds

• 高翔(こうしょう) (kōshō, “soaring high”)

Proper noun

翔(しょう) • (Shō) 

1. A male given name

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 翔 (MC zɨɐŋ). Recorded as Middle Korean 샤ᇰ (Yale: syang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

翔 (eumhun 날 상 (nal sang))

1. Hanja form^? of 상 (“soar”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 비상 (飛翔, bisang)
• 고상 (高翔, gosang)
• 활상 (滑翔, hwalsang)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

翔 (tường)

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