宮

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

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

Historical forms of the character 宮
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 宀 + 呂: many rooms under a roof (a palace).

宮

1. (architecture) palace
2. (architecture, religion) temple
3. (anatomy) womb; uterus

   子宮 / 子宫  ―  zǐgōng  ―  uterus, womb

   宮頸 / 宫颈  ―  gōngjǐng  ―  cervix

4. (music) the first note of the Chinese pentatonic scale
5. (historical law) castration as a punishment
6. A surname​.

In reference to temples, 宮 ("palace") 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.

• (Chinese pentatonic scale) 宮, 商, 角, 徵, 羽

• (historical punishment): 五刑 (wǔxíng)

• (temple): See 廟／庙 (miào)

• 闕／阙 (què), 殿 (diàn), 宸 (chén)

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. a shrine; a palace

• Go-on: く (ku, Jōyō, uncommon)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きゆう (kyū, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ぐう (gū, Jōyō)
• Kun: みや (miya, 宮, Jōyō); いえ (ie, 宮)
• Nanori: いえ (ie); たか (taka)

/mi₁ya/}} → /miya/

From Old Japanese. A compound of 神 or 御 (mi, “spiritual honorific”) +‎ 屋 (ya, “house”).[1][2][3][4]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) みや [mìyá] (Heiban – [0])[5][2]
  • IPA^(key): [mʲija̠]

宮 (hiragana みや, rōmaji miya)

1. (Shinto) the place where a god resides: a shrine
   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 413)[6]

     Miya. ミヤ (宮) 神 (Camis)の社.

2. (Buddhism) a temple holding a Buddhist statue
3. the place where a ruler resides: a palace
   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 413)[6]

     Miya. ミヤ (宮) 国王の子. また, 国王の宮殿

4. a member of the imperial family
   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho (page 413)[6]

     Miya. ミヤ (宮) 国王の子. また, 国王の宮殿

宮 (hiragana みや, rōmaji Miya)

1. A surname​.
2. an old name for a region in the Atsuta area of Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, where the Atsuta Shrine is located

From Middle Chinese 宮 (kjuwng, “dwelling; palace; note on a scale”). Compare modern Min Nan reading kiong.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) きゅ​う [kyúꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [kʲɨᵝː]

宮 (hiragana きゅう, rōmaji kyū)

1. a palace
2. (traditional music of China and Japan) the keynote or tonic of a musical scale, such as do in the do re mi scale notation of solfège
3. Short for 宮刑: literally “palace punishment”, this consisted of castration for men and sequestration in the palace for women
4. (astronomy, astrology) a zodiac sign or house, defined as one-twelfth of the circle of the ecliptic

   黄 (おう)道 (どう)十 (じゅう)二 (に)宮 (きゅう)、宝 (ほう)瓶 (へい)宮 (きゅう)

   ōdō jūni kyū, hōhei kyū

   the twelve signs of the zodiac, the house of Aquarius

宮 • (gung) (hangeul 궁, revised gung, McCune–Reischauer kung)

1. (집 궁): house
2. (대궐 궁): palace

宮 (cung)

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