航

Translingual

Han character

航 (Kangxi radical 137, 舟+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜卜竹弓 (HYYHN), four-corner 2041₇, composition ⿰舟亢)

Derived characters

• 𦶢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1009, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30385
• Dae Jaweon: page 1467, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3058, character 2
• Unihan data for U+822A

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Chinese

trad.		航
simp. #		航

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
笐	*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs
亢	*kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs
牨	*kaːŋ
苀	*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
魧	*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
迒	*kaːŋ, *ɡaːŋ
邟	*kʰaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
忼	*kʰaːŋʔ, *qʰaːŋ
骯	*kʰaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *qaːŋ
抗	*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
炕	*kʰaːŋs, *qʰaːŋ
伉	*kʰaːŋs
閌	*kʰaːŋs
犺	*kʰaːŋs
蚢	*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
砊	*kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
阬	*kʰaːŋs, *kʰraːŋ
頏	*kʰaːŋs, *ɡaːŋ
航	*ɡaːŋ
杭	*ɡaːŋ
沆	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ
肮	*ɡaːŋ
吭	*ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋʔ, *ɡaːŋs
秔	*kraːŋ
坑	*kʰraːŋ
劥	*kʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡaːŋ) : semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 亢 (OC *kaːŋ, *kʰaːŋs).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 航

1. ship; boat
2. to sail; to navigate; (of airplane) to fly

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Japanese

Kanji

航

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
• Kun: わたる (wataru, 航る)

Compounds

• 航空(こうくう) (kōkū): aviation
  • 航空便(こうくうびん) (kōkūbin): airmail
  • 航空郵便(こうくうゆうびん) (kōkūyūbin): airmail
  • 航空機(こうくうき) (kōkūki): aircraft
  • 航空母艦(こうくうぼかん) (kōkūbokan): aircraft carrier

Proper noun

航(わたる) • (Wataru) 

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

航 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune–Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 航 (hàng)

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