興
Translingual
Han character
興 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹難月金 (HXBC), four-corner 77801, composition ⿳⿴𦥑同一八)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1005, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30226
- Dae Jaweon: page 1461, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 253, character 9
- Unihan data for U+8208
Chinese
trad. | 興 | |
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simp. | 兴 | |
alternative forms | 㒷 |
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 興 | |||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 舁 (“to raise”) + 同 (“together”) – to hold up together.
Pronunciation 1
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Definitions
- to rise; to get up
- to thrive; to prosper; to flourish
- prosperous; flourishing
- to be popular; to be fashionable
- to start; to build; to establish
- to elect; to promote
- to succeed; to achieve success
- to send; to dispatch; to launch; to mount
- to collect; to recruit
- to do; to perform
- to advocate; to encourage
- to indulge; to spoil
- (dialectal, chiefly in the negative) to allow; to permit
- maybe; perhaps
- a surname
Descendants
- → Thai: เฮง (heng) (via Teochew)
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2
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Definitions
- excitement; interest; mood in doing something
- sensual desire; sexual desire; passion
- (obsolete or Min) to like; to be fond of; to love
- to liken; to analogise
- (rhetoric) metaphor
- (poetry) association; speaking first of something else to lead up to the main theme
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
Noun
Readings
- Go-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
- Kan-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)
- Kun: おこる (okoru, 興る, Jōyō); おこす (okosu, 興す, Jōyō); おきる (okiru)
Korean
Hanja
興 • (heung) (hangeul 흥, revised heung, McCune–Reischauer hŭng, Yale hung)
Vietnamese
Han character
(deprecated template usage) 興 (hưng, hăng, hên, hứng)
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