U+592E, 央
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-592E

[U+592D]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+592F]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 37, +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中月大 (LBK), four-corner 50030, composition or ⿻𠀃)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 249, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5840
  • Dae Jaweon: page 508, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 524, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+592E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qaːŋ, *qaŋ
*qaːŋ
*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
*qaːŋ
*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
*qaːŋʔ
*qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs
*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ
*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ
*qaːŋʔ
*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
*qaŋ
*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ
*qaŋ
*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
*qaŋ, *qraŋ
*qaŋ
*qaŋ, *qroːŋ
*qaŋʔ
*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs
*qaŋʔ
*qaŋʔ
*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
*qaŋʔ
*qraŋ
*qraŋ
*qraŋ
*qraŋ
*qraŋ
*qraŋ
*qraŋ
*qraŋ
*qraŋs

Pronunciation


Note:
  • yông - literary;
  • ông - vernacular (limited, e.g. 中央).
Note:
  • iong - literary;
  • iang - literary (all sense in Zhangzhou, “to beg” in Xiamen and mainstream Taiwanese);
  • ng - vernacular (limited, e.g. 中央).

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /iɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /iaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /iɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /iaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /iaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /iaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /iaŋ²¹/
Xining /iɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /iɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /iɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /iɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /iaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /iaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /iaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /iã̠/
Nanjing /iaŋ³¹/
Hefei /iɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /iɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /iɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /iɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iã⁵³/
Suzhou /iã⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔiɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /j̠i³³/
Hui Shexian /ia³¹/
Tunxi /iau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ian³³/
Xiangtan /ian³³/
Gan Nanchang /iɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /ioŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /oŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jœŋ⁵³/
Nanning /jœŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jœŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /iɔŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /yoŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /iɔŋ⁵⁴/
/ɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /iaŋ³³/
/ŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /iaŋ²³/
/o²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʔiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/ĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yāng
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yāng yāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjang › ‹ ʔjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔaŋ/ /*ʔaŋ/
English end (v.) center (n.)

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. 14488
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qaŋ/

Definitions

  1. centre; middle
  2. to end
  3. to beg; to plead
  4. A surname.

Compounds

  • 央及 (yāngjí)
  • 央告 (yānggào)
  • 央央
  • 央央戧戧
  • 央央插插
  • 央媒
  • 央帶央带
  • 央戧
  • 央托
  • 央求 (yāngqiú)
  • 央浼
  • 央浼營幹央浼营干
  • 央煩央烦
  • 央行 (yāngháng)
  • 央託央托 (yāngtuō)
  • 央請央请
  • 央靠
  • 念央兒念央儿
  • 投央
  • 未央 (wèiyāng)
  • 未央宮未央宫 (Wèiyāng Gōng)
  • 東央西告东央西告
  • 死告活央
  • 無央无央
  • 長樂未央长乐未央
  • 震央 (zhènyāng)

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
おう
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC ʔɨɐŋ).

Pronunciation

Affix

(hiragana おう, rōmaji ō, historical hiragana あう)

  1. centre, middle

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(ang) (hangeul , revised ang, McCuneReischauer ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ương, trân)

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