牼

牼 U+727C, 牼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-727C ← 牻 [U+727B] CJK Unified Ideographs 牽 → [U+727D]

Translingual

Han character

牼 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹手一女一 (HQMVM), four-corner 2151₁, composition ⿰牜巠)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 700, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20023
• Dae Jaweon: page 1114, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1810, character 13
• Unihan data for U+727C

Chinese

trad.		牼
simp.		𰠲

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
羥	*kʰreːn, *kʰreːŋ
俓	*ŋɡeːn, *ŋɡreːŋ, *keːŋs
牼	*kʰreːŋ, *ɡreːŋ
硁
誙	*kʰreːŋ
娙	*ŋɡreːŋ, *ɡeːŋ
莖	*ɡreːŋ, *qreːŋ
痙	*ɡeŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kēng (keng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: keng
    • Wade–Giles: kʻêng¹
    • Yale: kēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keng
    • Palladius: кэн (kɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hang¹
    • Yale: hāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: heng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kheang, heang

Rime
Character	牼	牼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)	耕 (117)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II
Fanqie	口莖切	戸耕切
Baxter	kheang	heang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠɛŋ/	/ɦˠɛŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚæŋ/	/ɦᵚæŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɐŋ/	/ɣɐŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰəɨjŋ/	/ɦəɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/kʰɛŋ/	/ɣɛŋ/
Wang Li	/kʰæŋ/	/ɣæŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰæŋ/	/ɣæŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kēng	héng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hang1	hang4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-kʰˤ<r>eŋ/, /*kʰˤ<r>eŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰreːŋ/, /*ɡreːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	牼	牼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kēng	kēng
Middle Chinese	‹ hɛng ›	‹ khɛng ›
Old Chinese	/*m-kʰˁ<r>eŋ/	/*kʰˁ<r>eŋ/
English	shank bone	shank bone
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	牼	牼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6780	6787
Phonetic component	坙	坙
Rime group	耕	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	鏗	莖
Old Chinese	/*kʰreːŋ/	/*ɡreːŋ/

Definitions

牼

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) shinbone of cattle

Japanese

Kanji

牼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)、きょう (kyō)、かん (kan)、けん (ken)