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U+5BAE, 宮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BAE

[U+5BAD]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5BAF]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 40, +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十口竹口 (JRHR), four-corner 30606, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𠹒, 𫱜, 𢞏, , , 𦞨, 𧎡, 𩘎, 𨜳, 𢾮, 𣪯, 𦵡, 𤹜

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 285, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7156
  • Dae Jaweon: page 564, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 936, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5BAE
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 宮, Shang ...

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): + : many rooms under a roof — a mansion.

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qim (house; pit; womb); see there for hypothesized cognates.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • keng - vernacular;
  • kiong - literary.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. (archaic) house; mansion; dwelling
  2. (architecture) palace
  3. (architecture, religion) temple; shrine
  4. (anatomy, in compounds) short for 子宮子宫 (zǐgōng, “womb; uterus”)
       gōngjǐng   cervix
  5. (music) the first note of the Chinese pentatonic scale
  6. (historical law) castration as a punishment
  7. (obsolete) to surround; to encircle
  8. a surname

Usage notes

In reference to temples,  / (gōng) is used for traditional deities considered to rank highly in the celestial bureaucracy, such as Mazu who was honored by the Qing dynasty as the "Queen of Heaven" after their successful invasion of Taiwan. In earlier history, it also referred to ancestral shrines.

Coordinate terms

Hypernyms

  • (historical punishment): 五刑 (wǔxíng)

Synonyms

  • (house):

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Compounds

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