肯

See also: 肻

肯	U+80AF, 肯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-80AF

← 肮
[U+80AE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

肰 →
[U+80B0]

Translingual

Han character

肯 (radical 130, 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜一月 (YMB), four-corner 2122₇, composition ⿱止月)

References

KangXi: page 976, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29311

Dae Jaweon: page 1427, character 21

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2048, character 4

Unihan data for U+80AF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		肯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 肯
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions

Characters in the same phonetic series (肯) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
肯	*kʰɯːŋʔ
肎	*kʰɯːŋʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kěn, kěng (ken³, keng³)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄣˇ, ㄎㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hang², hoi²
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): kên³ / hên³
Min Bei (KCR): kǎing
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): khńg / khéng / khín / khán

(Teochew, Peng'im): kêng²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: kěn
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄣˇ
  - Wade–Giles: k'ên³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keen
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰən²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
  - Pinyin: kěng
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄥˇ
  - Wade–Giles: k'êng³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keeng
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰɤŋ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hang², hoi²
  - Yale: háng, hói
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hang², hoi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: heng², hoi²
  - IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ³⁵/, /hɔːy̯³⁵/

Note: hoi2 - only in 肯綮.

Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: kên³ / hên³
  - IPA: /kʰɛn³¹/, /hɛn³¹/

Note:

kên3 - literary;
hên3 - vernacular.

Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: kǎing
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰaiŋ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khńg
  - Tâi-lô: khńg
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qngr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰŋ̍⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khéng
  - Tâi-lô: khíng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qeang
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰiɪŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɪŋ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khín
  - Tâi-lô: khín
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qien
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰin⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khán
  - Tâi-lô: khán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qarn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰan⁵³/

Note:

khńg/khéng - literary;
khín/khán - vernacular.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: kêng²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khéng
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰeŋ⁵²/

Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 肯
Mandarin	Beijing	/kʰən²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/kʰən²¹³/
	Tianjin	/kʰən¹³/
	Jinan	/kʰẽ⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/kʰə̃⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/kʰən⁵³/
	Xi'an	/kʰẽ⁵³/
	Xining	/kʰə̃⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/kʰəŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/kʰə̃n⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/kʰɤŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/kʰən⁴²/
	Chengdu	/kʰən⁵³/
	Guiyang	/kʰen⁴²/
	Kunming	/kʰə̃⁵³/
	Nanjing	/kʰən²¹²/
	Hefei	/kʰən²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/kʰəŋ⁵³/
	Pingyao	/kʰəŋ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/kʰə̃ŋ⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/kʰəŋ³⁵/
	Suzhou	/kʰən⁵¹/
	Hangzhou	/kʰen⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/kʰaŋ³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/kʰʌ̃³⁵/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰin³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/kʰən⁴¹/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/kʰən⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/kʰiɛn²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/kʰen³¹/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/hen³¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hɐŋ³⁵/
	Nanning	/hɐŋ³⁵/
	Hong Kong	/hɐŋ³⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kʰiŋ⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kʰiŋ³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kʰaiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kʰeŋ⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/xin²¹³/

Middle Chinese: /kʰəŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	肯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦等切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰəŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰəŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰəŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰəŋ^X/
Li Rong	/kʰəŋ^X/
Wang Li	/kʰəŋ^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰəŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kěng

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kʰˤəŋʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰɯːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	肯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kěn
Middle Chinese	‹ khong^X ›
Old Chinese	/*kʰˁəŋʔ/
English	to be willing
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	肯
Reading #	1/1
No.	7485
Phonetic component	肯
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	肯
Old Chinese	/*kʰɯːŋʔ/
Notes	說文作肎

Definitions

肯

willing
to consent to; to permit

Compounds

不肯 (bùkěn)
不肯一世
不肯干休
中肯 (zhòngkěn)
問肯／问肯
心折首肯
心肯意肯
惠然肯來／惠然肯来
洞中肯綮

肯亞／肯亚 (Kěnyà)
肯分的
肯堂肯構／肯堂肯构
肯塔基州
肯定 (kěndìng)
肯定命題／肯定命题
肯尼亞／肯尼亚 (Kěnníyà)
肯德基 (Kěndéjī)

肯心兒／肯心儿
肯構肯堂／肯构肯堂
肯綮 (kěnqìng)
肯許／肯许
肯酒
自我肯定
阿肯色州
首肯 (shǒukěn)

Japanese

Kanji

肯

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
On: かい (kai)
Kun: うべなう (ubenau, 肯う); がえんずる (gaenzuru, 肯んずる); がえんじる (gaenjiru, 肯んじる); あえて (aete, 肯えて); うけがう (ukegau, 肯う)

Compounds

肯 (こう)綮 (けい) (kōkei)
肯 (こう)定 (てい) (kōtei)

Korean

Hanja

肯 • (geung) (hangeul 긍, revised geung, McCune–Reischauer kŭng, Yale kung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

肯 (khẳng, khứng, khừng)

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