纊

See also: 絋 and 纩

纊 U+7E8A, 纊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E8A ← 纉 [U+7E89] CJK Unified Ideographs 纋 → [U+7E8B]

Translingual

Traditional	纊
Shinjitai (extended)	絋
Simplified	纩

Han character

纊 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈廿金 (VFITC), four-corner 2093₂, composition ⿰糹廣)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 942, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28033
• Dae Jaweon: page 1382, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3464, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7E8A

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

Etymology 1

trad.		纊
simp.		纩
alternative forms		絖／𬘢 絋 calligraphic

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuàng (kuang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwong³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuàng
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuang⁴
    • Yale: kwàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuanq
    • Palladius: куан (kuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kwong³
    • Yale: kwong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɔːŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: khwangH

Rime
Character	纊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	唐 (102)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦謗切
Baxter	khwangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰwɑŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷɑŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwaŋH/
Li Rong	/kʰuɑŋH/
Wang Li	/kʰuɑŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰwɑŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuàng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fong3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷʰˤaŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷaːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	纊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuàng
Middle Chinese	‹ khwangH ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷʰˁaŋ-s/
English	fine floss silk; quilted
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	纊
Reading #	1/1
No.	5377
Phonetic component	黄
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	曠
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷaːŋs/

Definitions

纊

1. (literary) silk wadding; silk floss
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) silkworm cocoon
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 曠 / 旷 (kuàng, “vast; broad”)
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Classifier for eighty threads.

Compounds

• 屬纊 / 属纩
• 挾纊 / 挟纩
• 絺纊 / 𫄨纩
• 纊工 / 纩工
• 黈纊 / 黈纩

Etymology 2

trad.		纊
simp.		纩

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwang³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kwang³
    • Yale: kwang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwang³
    • Guangdong Romanization: kueng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐŋ³³/

Definitions

纊 (Cantonese)

1. to bump against; to rub against

   我個盒纊到埲牆。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我个盒纩到埲墙。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ go³ hap^6-2 kwang³ dou^3-2 bung⁶ coeng⁴. [Jyutping]

   My box bumped against the wall.

2. to bolt (a door) hastily
3. (figuratively) to compete
   • 1996, 大內密探零零發 [Forbidden City Cop], 苑瓊丹 [Kingdom Yuen] (actor):

     纊咩，人哋撩個鼻屎都靚過你點纊呀？你兩個快啲扯啦！如咪我大巴大巴噉星你㗎啵。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     纩咩，人哋撩个鼻屎都靓过你点纩呀？你两个快啲扯啦！如咪我大巴大巴噉星你㗎啵。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     kwang³ me¹, jan⁴ dei⁶ liu¹ go³ bei⁶ si² dou¹ leng³ gwo³ nei⁵ dim² kwang³ aa³? nei⁵ loeng⁵ go³ faai³ di¹ ce² laa¹! ju² mai⁶ ngo⁵ daai⁶ baa¹ daai⁶ baa¹ gam² sing¹ nei⁵ gaa³ bo³. [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “纊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	絋
Print standard	纊

Kanji

纊

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 絋)

1. cotton
2. silk

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: わた (wata, 纊)、わたいれ (wataire, 纊)
• Nanori: ひろ (hiro)

Korean

Hanja

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

1. cotton
2. padded clothes
3. broad, wide (same as 曠)

Vietnamese

Han character

纊: Hán Nôm readings: khoáng

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