馨

See also: 馫

馨	U+99A8, 馨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-99A8

← 馧
[U+99A7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

馩 →
[U+99A9]

Translingual

Han character

馨 (radical 186, 香+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 土水竹木日 (GEHDA), four-corner 4760₉, composition ⿱殸香)

fragrant, aromatic

Derived characters

𧅥

References

KangXi: page 1429, character 30
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44559
Dae Jaweon: page 1956, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4425, character 8
Unihan data for U+99A8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		馨
variant forms		馫

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰeːŋ) : phonetic 殸 (OC *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs) + semantic 香 (“sweet”).

Etymology

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xīn (xin¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hing¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hin¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): heng

(Teochew, Peng'im): hêng¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xīn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ
  - Wade–Giles: hsin¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shin
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hing¹
  - Yale: hīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hing¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hing¹
  - IPA ^(key): /hɪŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: hin¹
  - IPA: /çin⁴⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: heng
  - Tâi-lô: hing
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hefng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hiɪŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hêng¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: heng
  - IPA ^(key): /heŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: /heŋ/▼

Rime
Character	馨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	呼刑切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/heŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/heŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/xɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/xeŋ/
Wang Li	/xieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/xieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xīng

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

(Zhengzhang): /*qʰeːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	馨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xīn
Middle Chinese	‹ xeng ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁeŋ/
English	fragrance
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	馨
Reading #	1/1
No.	10520
Phonetic component	殸
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	馨
Old Chinese	/*qʰeːŋ/

Definitions

馨

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Compounds

垂馨千祀
寧馨／宁馨 (níngxīn)
寧馨兒／宁馨儿
康乃馨 (kāngnǎixīn)
明德惟馨

清馨
溫馨／温馨 (wēnxīn)
甘馨之費／甘馨之费
素馨 (sùxīn)
芳馨

雲南黃馨／云南黄馨
馨逸
馨香 (xīnxiāng)
馨香禱祝／馨香祷祝

Japanese

Kanji

馨

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Go-on: きょう (kyō)
Kan-on: けい (kei)
Kun: かおる (kaoru, 馨る)

Compounds

素 (そ)馨 (けい) (sokei): Spanish jasmine

Proper noun

馨 (hiragana かおる, rōmaji Kaoru)

A unisex given name

Korean

Hanja

馨 • (hyeong) (hangeul 형, revised hyeong, McCune–Reischauer hyŏng, Yale hyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

馨 (hinh, hanh, hênh)

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