凶

See also: 兇, 区, and 𠄡
凶 U+51F6, 凶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51F6
← 凵
[U+51F5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 凷 →
[U+51F7]

Translingual

Han character

凶 (radical 17, 凵+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 山大 (UK), four-corner 22770, composition ⿶凵㐅)

References
  • KangXi: page 135, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1803
  • Dae Jaweon: page 300, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 306, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+51F6

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 凶
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script

s05171

Transcribed ancient scripts

L30005

L00905

L00906

L00907

L00908

L00909

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (凶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
酗 *qʰos
凶 *qʰoŋ
匈 *qʰoŋ
兇 *qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ
訩 *qʰoŋ
胸 *qʰoŋ
胷 *qʰoŋ
洶 *qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ
恟 *qʰoŋ
詾 *qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ

Pictogram (象形) and/or Ideogram (指事) - with the '凵' component representing a hole in the ground and with the '㐅' component (if an ideogram) indicating the existence of a hole and/or (if a pictogram) representing rock, mud, stone or bamboo in the hole. Alternately, could be derived from the upper component of '㚇'.

Etymology 1
simp. and trad.
 凶
variant forms 㐫
㓙
兇

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 凶
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /huawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /xioŋ/
Wang
Li		 /xĭwoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiōng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 凶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰ(r)oŋ/
English unlucky

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 凶
Reading # 1/1
No. 13889
Phonetic
component		 凶
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 胷
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰoŋ/

Definitions

凶

  1. inauspicious; bad luck; bad omen

Compounds

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 凶 – see 兇 (“terrible; ferocious”).
(This character, 凶, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 兇.)
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji
凶

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. ill fortune

Readings

Noun

凶 (hiragana きょう, rōmaji kyō)

  1. ill fortune

Alternative forms

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

凶 • (hyung) (hangeul 흉, revised hyung, McCune–Reischauer hyung, Yale hyung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

凶 (hung)

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