See also:
U+8591, 薑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8591

[U+8590]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8592]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 140, +13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿一田一 (TMWM), four-corner 44106, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1061, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32110
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3300, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8591

Chinese

trad.
simp. *
variant forms
𧅁
𦷗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
橿 *kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋ
*kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ
*kaŋ

Originally , a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kaŋ) : semantic  (grass; plant) + phonetic  (OC *kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ).

Note that the simplified form (OC *klaŋ) is also a traditional character on its own.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kjaŋ (ginger). Compare Burmese ချင်း (hkyang:).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/kiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/kĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiāng
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]aŋ/
English ginger

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6260
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaŋ/

Definitions

  1. ginger

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of (“ginger”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
Mandarin Beijing
Taiwan
Harbin
Bayanhot 洋辣子
Jinan , 鮮薑, 黃薑
Muping , 生薑
Luoyang
Wanrong , 生薑
Xi'an 生薑,
Zhengzhou
Xuzhou 生薑,
Yinchuan 生薑
Lanzhou 生薑
Ürümqi 生薑
Wuhan 生薑,
Chengdu 生薑,
Guiyang 生薑
Liuzhou
Yangzhou 生薑
Nanjing 生薑,
Hefei 生薑
Cantonese Guangzhou , 生薑
Hong Kong
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)
Foshan , 生薑
Shunde
Zhongshan (Shiqi)
Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)
Taishan 薑乸,
Kaiping (Chikan) 薑乸
Dongguan
Shaoguan
Yunfu 薑乸
Yangjiang 老薑, , 薑乸
Xinyi , 生薑
Lianjiang , 薑乸
Kuala Lumpur
Gan Nanchang 生薑,
Lichuan
Pingxiang
Hakka Meixian 薑嫲, , 生薑
Yudu
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 薑嫲
Liudui (S. Sixian) 薑嫲
Hsinchu (Hailu) 薑嫲
Dongshi (Dabu) 薑嫲
Hsinchu (Raoping) 薑嫲
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 薑嫲
Hong Kong 薑嫲
Sabah 薑嫲
Senai
Singkawang 薑嫲
Huizhou Jixi , 生薑
Jin Taiyuan 鮮薑,
Xinzhou 鮮薑
Hohhot 生薑
Min Bei Jian'ou 老薑,
Min Dong Fuzhou 薑母,
Fuqing 薑母
Min Nan Xiamen
Quanzhou
Zhangzhou
Taipei
Kaohsiung
Tainan
Taichung
Hsinchu
Lukang
Sanxia
Yilan
Kinmen
Magong
Penang
Chaozhou
Johor Bahru
Wenchang 薑母
Haikou 薑母
Puxian Min Putian 薑母
Xianyou 薑母
Pinghua Nanning
Wu Shanghai 生薑,
Suzhou , 生薑
Hangzhou
Wenzhou , 生薑
Chongming 生薑
Danyang 生薑
Jinhua 生薑
Ningbo 生薑,
Xiang Changsha , 生薑
Shuangfeng 生薑
Loudi

Compounds

  • 乾薑干姜 (gānjiāng)
  • 人老精,薑老辣人老精,姜老辣
  • 吃蔥吃蒜不吃薑吃葱吃蒜不吃姜
  • 咬薑呷醋咬姜呷醋
  • 咬薑啜醋咬姜啜醋
  • 夠薑够姜
  • 嫩薑嫩姜
  • 本地薑唔辣本地姜唔辣
  • 枸薑枸姜
  • 毛薑毛姜
  • 生薑生姜 (shēngjiāng)
  • 砂薑砂姜
  • 粉薑粉姜
  • 胡椒細細辣過薑胡椒细细辣过姜
  • 薑啤姜啤
  • 薑嫲姜嫲
  • 薑是老的辣姜是老的辣
  • 薑桂姜桂
  • 薑桂老辣姜桂老辣
  • 薑母姜母 (jiāngmǔ)
  • 薑母鴨姜母鸭 (jiāngmǔyā)
  • 薑汁撞奶姜汁撞奶 (jiāngzhī zhuàng nǎi)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. ginger

Readings

  • Go-on: こう (kō)
  • Kan-on: きょう (kyō)
  • Kun: はじかみ (hajikami)

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(gang) (hangeul , revised gang, McCuneReischauer kang, Yale kang)

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