陘

See also: 陉 and 𫔽

陘 U+9658, 陘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9658 ← 陗 [U+9657] CJK Unified Ideographs 陙 → [U+9659]

Translingual

Traditional	陘
Shinjitai (extended)	𫔽
Simplified	陉

Han character

陘 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓中一女一 (NLMVM), four-corner 7121₁, composition ⿰阝巠)

1. defile, mountain pass
2. edge of a kitchen stove
3. slope

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1351, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41650
• Dae Jaweon: page 1853, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4130, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9658

Chinese

trad.		陘
simp.		陉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
葝	*ɡeŋ, *ɡeŋ
頸	*keŋʔ, *ɡeŋ
勁	*kɯns, *keŋs
鑋	*kʰeŋ, *kʰeːŋs
輕	*kʰeŋ, *kʰeŋs
涇	*ɡeŋʔ, *keːŋ
經	*keːŋ, *keːŋs
鵛	*keːŋ
巠	*keːŋ
剄	*keːŋʔ
烴	*keːŋʔ
徑	*keːŋs
逕	*keːŋs
桱	*keːŋs
蛵	*qʰeːŋ
陘	*ɡeːŋ
鋞	*ɡeːŋ, *ɡeːŋʔ
脛	*ɡeːŋʔ, *ɡeːŋs
踁	*ɡeːŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xíng (xing²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hing²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: síng
    • Wade–Giles: hsing²
    • Yale: syíng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyng
    • Palladius: син (sin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jing⁴
    • Yale: yìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hing²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiŋ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: heng

Rime
Character	陘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	戸經切
Baxter	heng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦeŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦeŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/ɣeŋ/
Wang Li	/ɣieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xíng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jing4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤeŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡeːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	陘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xíng
Middle Chinese	‹ heng ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁeŋ/
English	ravine
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	陘
Reading #	1/1
No.	6812
Phonetic component	巠
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	㓝
Old Chinese	/*ɡeːŋ/

Definitions

陘

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Compounds

• 井陘／井陉 (Jǐngxíng)
• 陘山／陉山

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “陉”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 265.

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	𫔽
Kyūjitai	陘

Kanji

陘

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𫔽)

1. defile
2. mountain pass
3. gorge

Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei)、ぎょう (gyō)、きょう (kyō)
• Kun: たに (tani)

Korean

Hanja

陘 • (hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune–Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

1. defile
2. gorge
3. slope
4. oven