鑛

See also: 鉱 and 礦

鑛 U+945B, 鑛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-945B ← 鑚 [U+945A] CJK Unified Ideographs 鑜 → [U+945C]

Translingual

Traditional	鑛
Shinjitai	鉱
Simplified	矿

Han character

鑛 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+15, 23 strokes, cangjie input 金戈廿金 (CITC) or 難難金戈廿 (XXCIT), composition ⿰釒廣)

Related characters

• 礦 砿

Descendants

• 鉱

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1325, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41010
• Dae Jaweon: page 1826, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4268, character 19
• Unihan data for U+945B

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
僙	*kʷaːŋ
廣	*kʷaːŋʔ
鄺	*kʷaːŋʔ, *qʰʷaːŋ
懬	*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰaːŋʔ
爌	*kʰʷaːŋʔ, *kʰʷaːŋs, *qʰʷaːŋʔ
曠	*kʰʷaːŋs
矌	*kʰʷaːŋs
壙	*kʰʷaːŋs
纊	*kʰʷaːŋs
黃	*ɡʷaːŋ
璜	*ɡʷaːŋ
潢	*ɡʷaːŋ, *ɡʷaːŋs
簧	*ɡʷaːŋ
癀	*ɡʷaːŋ
鱑	*ɡʷaːŋ
獚	*ɡʷaːŋ
蟥	*ɡʷaːŋ
趪	*ɡʷaːŋ
櫎	*ɡʷaːŋʔ
擴	*ɡʷlaːŋs, *kʰʷaːɡ
瀇	*qʷaːŋʔ
獷	*kʷaŋʔ, *kʷraːŋʔ
觵	*kʷraːŋ
礦	*kʷraːŋʔ
鑛	*kʷraːŋʔ
穬	*kʷraːŋʔ
橫	*ɡʷraːŋ, *ɡʷraːŋs, *kʷaːŋ
黌	*ɡʷraːŋ
鐄	*ɡʷraːŋ
嚝	*qʰʷraːŋ
彉	*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ
彍	*kʷaːɡ, *qʰʷaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷraːŋʔ) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 廣 (OC *kʷaːŋʔ).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 鑛 – see 礦 (“mineral deposit; ore; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 礦).

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Japanese

Shinjitai	鉱
Kyūjitai	鑛

Kanji

鑛

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鉱)

1. ore

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: あらがね (aragane, 鑛)

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Korean

Hanja

鑛 • (gwang) (hangeul 광, revised gwang, McCune–Reischauer kwang, Yale kwang)

1. mine
2. mineral, ore

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Vietnamese

Han character

鑛: Hán Nôm readings: khoáng; khoan

1. mineral