凶

See also: 兇, 区, and 𠄡

凶 U+51F6, 凶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51F6 ← 凵 [U+51F5] CJK Unified Ideographs 凷 → [U+51F7]

Translingual

Han character

凶 (Kangxi radical 17, 凵+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 山大 (UK), four-corner 2277₀, composition ⿶凵㐅)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 135, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1803
• Dae Jaweon: page 300, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 306, character 19
• Unihan data for U+51F6

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 凶
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s05171 Transcribed ancient scripts L30005 L00905 L00906 L00907 L00908 L00909
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
酗	*qʰos
凶	*qʰoŋ
匈	*qʰoŋ
兇	*qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ
訩	*qʰoŋ
胸	*qʰoŋ
胷	*qʰoŋ
洶	*qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ
恟	*qʰoŋ
詾	*qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ

Pictogram (象形) and/or Ideogram (指事) - with the '凵' component representing a hole in the ground and with the '㐅' component (if an ideogram) indicating the existence of a hole and/or (if a pictogram) representing rock, mud, stone or bamboo in the hole. Alternately, could be derived from the upper component of '㚇'.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		凶
alternative forms		㐫 㓙 兇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiōng (xiong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hiûng
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syong
    • Wade–Giles: hsiung¹
    • Yale: syūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiong
    • Palladius: сюн (sjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hung¹
    • Yale: hūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hiûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: hiung^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hiung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /hi̯uŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiong
    • Tâi-lô: hiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɔŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: xjowng

Rime
Character	凶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許容切
Baxter	xjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/hioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/xioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huawŋ/
Li Rong	/xioŋ/
Wang Li	/xĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰ(r)oŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰoŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	凶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiōng
Middle Chinese	‹ xjowng ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰ(r)oŋ/
English	unlucky
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	凶
Reading #	1/1
No.	13889
Phonetic component	凶
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	胷
Old Chinese	/*qʰoŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 凶

1. inauspicious; bad luck; bad omen

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2. to have a famine due to crop failure

   凶年  ―  xiōngnián  ―  year of bad harvest and famine

   • 河內凶，則移其民於河東，移其粟於河內；河東凶亦然。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     河内凶，则移其民于河东，移其粟于河内；河东凶亦然。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Hé nèi xiōng, zé yí qí mín yú hé dōng, yí qí sù yú hé nèi; hé dōng xiōng yì rán. [Pinyin]

     If the year be bad on the inside of the river, I remove as many of the people as I can to the east of the river, and convey grain to the country in the inside. When the year is bad on the east of the river, I act on the same plan.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 凶 – see 兇 (“terrible; ferocious”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 兇).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “Entry #592”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

凶

(Jōyō kanji)

1. ominous
2. killing, terrible

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)、ぐう (gū)
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō, Jōyō)
• Kun: わるい (warui, 凶い)

Noun

Kanji in this term
凶
きょう Grade: S
kan'on

Alternative spelling
兇

凶(きょう) • (kyō) 

1. ill fortune

Compounds

• 凶悪
• 凶漢
• 凶器
• 凶行
• 凶作
• 凶刃
• 凶弾
• 凶変
• 凶暴
• 吉凶
• 元凶
• 豊凶

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Korean

Hanja

凶 (eumhun 흉할 흉 (hyunghal hyung))

1. hanja form^? of 흉 (“ominous; terrible”)

Compounds

• 흉악 (凶惡, hyung'ak, “evil”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

凶: Hán Nôm readings: hung

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