翔

Translingual

Han character

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

1. soar, glide, hover
2. detailed

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		翔

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiáng (xiang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xiáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsiang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyang
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: coeng⁴
    • Yale: chèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰœːŋ²¹/

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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

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Compounds

• 回翔
• 徊翔
• 滑翔 (huáxiáng)
• 滑翔機／滑翔机 (huáxiángjī)
• 滑翔翼
• 翔實／翔实 (xiángshí)
• 翔步

• 翔洽
• 翔翔
• 翔舞
• 翔貴／翔贵
• 翔踊
• 翔集
• 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
• 鸞翔鳳集／鸾翔凤集

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Japanese

Kanji

翔

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. fly

Readings

• Goon: ぞう (zō)
• Kan’on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: かける (kakeru)

Compounds

• 高翔 (こうしょう) ‎(kōshō, “flying high”)

Proper noun

翔 ‎(hiragana しょう, romaji Shō)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

翔 • ‎(sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

翔 (vũ, võ, tường)

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