殸

殸 U+6BB8, 殸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BB8 ← 殷 [U+6BB7] CJK Unified Ideographs 殹 → [U+6BB9]

Translingual

Han character

殸 (Kangxi radical 79, 殳+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土竹竹弓水 (GHHNE), composition ⿰声殳)

Descendants

• 撀, 㯏, 漀, 㷫, 㿦, 磬, 䅽, 㲆, 㲇, 㲈, 罄, 聲, 𪵑, 謦, 䡰(𰺘), 鏧, 𣫙, 韾, 馨, 毊, 𪚣(𬺝), 𤯒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 585, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16633
• Dae Jaweon: page 977, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2159, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6BB8

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 殸
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
殸	*kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs
聲	*qʰjeŋ
謦	*kʰeːŋʔ, *kʰeːŋs
磬	*kʰeːŋs
罄	*kʰeːŋs
馨	*qʰeːŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 声 (“stone chime”) + 殳 (“hand holding a mallet”) — a stone chime being struck by a mallet.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		殸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kēng (keng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄥ

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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/

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• Middle Chinese: kheang, khengH

Rime
Character	殸	殸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	口莖切	苦定切
Baxter	kheang	khengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠɛŋ/	/kʰeŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚæŋ/	/kʰeŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɐŋ/	/kʰɛŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰəɨjŋ/	/kʰɛjŋH/
Li Rong	/kʰɛŋ/	/kʰeŋH/
Wang Li	/kʰæŋ/	/kʰieŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰæŋ/	/kʰieŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kēng	qìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hang1	hing3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[C.qʰ]ˤeŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰreːŋ/, /*kʰeːŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	殸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qìng
Middle Chinese	‹ khengH ›
Old Chinese	/*[C.qʰ]ˁeŋ-s/
English	hanging musical stone
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	殸	殸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10513	10516
Phonetic component	殸	殸
Rime group	耕	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	鏗	罄
Old Chinese	/*kʰreːŋ/	/*kʰeːŋs/
Notes		籀文磬

Definitions

殸

1. ^† enemy

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 殸 – see 磬 (“stone chimes; sounding stone; qing; inverted bell”). (This character is a variant form of 磬).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 殸 – see 聲 (“sound; noise; voice; music; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 聲).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C05907

Japanese

Kanji

殸

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. voice

Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei); きょう (kyō); こう (kō); せい (sei); しょう (shō)
• Kun: けい (kei); てき (teki); こえ (koe)

Korean

Hanja

殸 • (seong) (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune–Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

1. voice
2. elegance
3. song
4. honor