競

See also: 竞 and 竸

競 U+7AF6, 競 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AF6 ← 竵 [U+7AF5] CJK Unified Ideographs 竷 → [U+7AF7]

Translingual

Han character

競 (Kangxi radical 117, 立+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜山卜廿山 (YUYTU), four-corner 0021₆, composition ⿰竞竞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 873, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25831
• Dae Jaweon: page 1304, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2717, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7AF6

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Chinese

trad.		競
simp.		竞
alternative forms		𧫙 傹 𥪰 竸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 競
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
誩	*ɡaŋʔ, *ɡraŋs, *l̥ʰuːms
競	*ɡraŋs

According to Shuowen, an Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 誩 (“argument”) + 儿 (“man”) + 儿 (“man”) – two individuals competing. Also possibly a Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡraŋs) : phonetic 誩 (OC *ɡaŋʔ, *ɡraŋs, *l̥ʰuːms) + semantic 儿 (“man”) + semantic 儿 (“man”). Compare 友.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jìng (jing⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ging⁶ / ging³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kin
• Eastern Min (BUC): gêng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kēng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gêng⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jìng
    • Wade–Giles: ching⁴
    • Yale: jìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinq
    • Palladius: цзин (czin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ging⁶ / ging³
    • Yale: gihng / ging
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ging⁶ / ging³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ging⁶ / ging³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɪŋ²²/, /kɪŋ³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kin
    • Hakka Romanization System: gin
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gin⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /kin⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛiŋ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kēng
    • Tâi-lô: kīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: keng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kiɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /kiɪŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kiɪŋ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gêng⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kĕng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /keŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: gjaengH

Rime
Character	競
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠敬切
Baxter	gjaengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiæŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚiaŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiaŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/giajŋH/
Li Rong	/ɡiɐŋH/
Wang Li	/ɡĭɐŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯ɐŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ging6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-kraŋʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡraŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	競
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jìng
Middle Chinese	‹ gjængH ›
Old Chinese	/*m-kraŋʔ-s/ (~ C-kraŋʔ-s)
English	strive; compete
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	競
Reading #	1/1
No.	6893
Phonetic component	誩
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	競
Old Chinese	/*ɡraŋs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 競

1. to contend; to vie; to compete
2. (literary) competitively; eagerly; trying to outdo one another
3. ^† strong; powerful

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Japanese

Kanji

競

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. competition
2. to compete

Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←ぎやう (gyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kun: きおう (kiou, 競う)^{←きほふ (kifofu, 競ふ, historical)}、きおい (kioi, 競)^{←きほひ (kifofi, 競, historical)}、きおい (kioi, 競い)^{←きほひ (kifofi, 競ひ, historical)}、きそう (kisou, 競う, Jōyō)^{←きそふ (kisofu, 競ふ, historical)}、きそい (kisoi, 競)^{←きそひ (kisofi, 競, historical)}、きそい (kisoi, 競い)^{←きそひ (kisofi, 競ひ, historical)}、くらべる (kuraberu, 競べる)^{←くらぶ (kurabu, 競ぶ, historical)}、くらべ (kurabe, 競)、くらべ (kurabe, 競べ)、くら (kura, 競)、せる (seru, 競る, Jōyō)、せり (seri, 競)、せり (seri, 競り)

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Korean

Hanja

競 (eumhun 다툴 경 (datul gyeong))

1. hanja form^? of 경 (“competition”)

Compounds

• 경기 (競技, gyeonggi, “a match”)
• 경쟁 (競爭, gyeongjaeng, “competition”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

競: Hán Nôm readings: cạnh, ganh

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