衡

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡraːŋ): phonetic 行 ‎(OC *ɡaːŋ, *ɡaːŋs, *ɡraːŋ, *ɡraːŋs) + semantic 角 ‎(“horn”) + semantic 大 ‎(“big”)

Han character

衡 (radical 144 行+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹人弓大弓 (HONKN), four-corner 2122₁, composition ⿲彳𩵋亍)

1. measure, weigh, judge, consider

References

• KangXi: page 1110, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34078
• Dae Jaweon: page 1575, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 846, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8861

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		衡

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héng (heng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hang⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: héng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hengr
    • IPA ^(key): /xɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hang⁴
    • Yale: hàhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hang⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦˠæŋ/▼

Rime
Character	衡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	戸庚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦᵚaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣɐŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	héng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤraŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡraːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	衡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	héng
Middle Chinese	‹ hæng ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˤraŋ/
English	beam of a steelyard
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	衡
Reading #	1/1
No.	13868
Phonetic component	行
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	行
Old Chinese	/*ɡraːŋ/

Definitions

衡

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Japanese

Kanji

衡

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ぎょう (gyō) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: こう (kō)
• Kun: はかり (hakari), はかる (hakaru)

Compounds

• 拡大均衡 (かくだいきんこう) ‎(kakudai kinkō)
• 合従連衡 (がっしょうれんこう) ‎(gasshō renkō)
• 均衡 (きんこう) ‎(kinkō)
• 均衡価格 (きんこうかかく) ‎(kinkō kakaku)
• 均衡経済 (きんこうけいざい) ‎(kinkō keizai)
• 均衡予算 (きんこうよさん) ‎(kinkō yosan)
• 権衡 (けんこう) ‎(kenkō)
• 衡器 (こうき) ‎(kōki)
• 衡平 (こうへい) ‎(kōhei)
• 財政均衡計画 (ざいせいきんこうけいかく) ‎(zaisei kinkō keikaku)
• 銓衡 (せんこう) ‎(senkō)
• 度量衡 (どりょうこう) ‎(doryōkō)
• 不均衡 (ふきんこう) ‎(fukinkō)
• 平衡 (へいこう) ‎(heikō)
• 平衡感覚 (へいこうかんかく) ‎(heikō kankaku)
• 平衡錘 (へいこうすい) ‎(heikōsui)
• 利子平衡税 (りしへいこうぜい) ‎(rishiheikōzei)
• 連衡 (れんこう) ‎(renkō)

Noun

衡 ‎(hiragana くびき, romaji kubiki)

1. Alternative form of 軛

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Korean

Hanja

衡 • ‎(hyeong, hoeng) (hangeul 형, 횡, revised hyeong, hoeng, McCune-Reischauer hyŏng, hoeng, Yale hyeng, hoyng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

衡 (hành, hoành)

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