襄

See also: 㐮

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

襄 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜口口女 (YRRV), four-corner 0073₂, composition ⿳亠⿱吅𠀎𧘇)

Derived characters

• 孃 讓 釀 壤

Descendants

• 㐮

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1123, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34556
• Dae Jaweon: page 1591, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3109, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8944

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		襄
alternative forms		㐮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 襄
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
囊	*naːŋ
蠰	*naːŋ, *sraŋ, *hnjaŋs, *njaŋʔ
曩	*naːŋʔ
灢	*naːŋʔ, *naːŋs
儾	*naːŋs
孃	*naŋ, *njaŋ
瓤	*naŋ, *njaŋ
鑲	*naŋ, *njaŋ
釀	*naŋs
瓖	*snaŋ, *snaŋ
驤	*snaŋ
襄	*snaŋ
纕	*snaŋ
忀	*snaŋ
欀	*snaŋ, *njaŋs
饟	*hnjaŋ, *hnjaŋʔ, *hnjaŋs
攘	*njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, *njaŋs
禳	*njaŋ
穰	*njaŋ, *njaŋʔ
躟	*njaŋ, *njaŋʔ
瀼	*njaŋ
獽	*njaŋ
儴	*njaŋ
蘘	*njaŋ
鬤	*njaŋ, *rnaːŋ
勷	*njaŋ
壤	*njaŋʔ
嚷	*njaŋʔ
讓	*njaŋs
懹	*njaŋs
攮	*rnoːŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāng (xiang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siang
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang¹
    • Yale: syāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiang
    • Palladius: сян (sjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: soeng¹
    • Yale: sēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siong
    • Tâi-lô: siong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: sjang

Rime
Character	襄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息良切
Baxter	sjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/siɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/siɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/siaŋ/
Wang Li	/sĭaŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soeng1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-naŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*snaŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	襄	襄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiāng	xiāng
Middle Chinese	‹ sjang ›	‹ sjang ›
Old Chinese	/*s-naŋ/	/*s-naŋ/
English	remove	Xiāng (personal name)
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	襄
Reading #	1/1
No.	13620
Phonetic component	襄
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	襄
Old Chinese	/*snaŋ/
Notes	從衣，中從饟之初文得聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 襄

1. (literary) to aid; to help; to assist
2. undress (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
3. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

襄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. To rise; raise

Readings

• On (unclassified): じょう (jō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: のぼる (noboru), あげる (ageru), たかい (takai)

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Korean

Hanja

襄 • (yang) (hangeul 양, revised yang, McCune–Reischauer yang, Yale yang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 襄 (tương)

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