康

See also: 隶
康 U+5EB7, 康
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EB7
← 庶
[U+5EB6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 庸 →
[U+5EB8]

Translingual

Han character

康 (radical 53, 广+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈中水 (ILE), four-corner 00232, composition ⿸广隶)

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 347, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9376
  • Dae Jaweon: page 658, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 891, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5EB7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 康

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唐 *ɡl'aːŋ
煻 *l'aːŋ
糖 *l'aːŋ
搪 *l'aːŋ
蓎 *l'aːŋ
瑭 *l'aːŋ
餹 *l'aːŋ
篖 *l'aːŋ
螗 *l'aːŋ
塘 *l'aːŋ
鶶 *l'aːŋ
赯 *l'aːŋ
磄 *l'aːŋ
溏 *l'aːŋ
傏 *l'aːŋ
鎕 *l'aːŋ
榶 *l'aːŋ
嵣 *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚 *kraːŋ
賡 *kraːŋ
鹒 *kraːŋ
康 *kʰlaːŋ
穅 *kʰlaːŋ
糠 *kʰlaːŋ
槺 *kʰlaːŋ
漮 *kʰlaːŋ
躿 *kʰlaːŋ
慷 *kʰlaːŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 庚 (“threshing tools”) + 米 (“rice”), chaff.

The derivative 糠 refers to the original word.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • khng - vernacular;
  • khong/khang - literary.
Rime
Character 康
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦岡切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /kʰɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kāng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 康 康 康
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kāng kāng tāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khang › ‹ khang › ‹ thang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kʰ]ˤaŋ/ /*k-r̥ˤaŋ/ /*r̥ˤaŋ/
English empty tranquil; at ease name of first Shang ruler

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 康
Reading # 1/1
No. 3981
Phonetic
component		 庚
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 康
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰlaːŋ/

Definitions

康

  1. peaceful, quiet
  2. happy, healthy
  3. A surname​.
  4. Kham (historical region of Tibet)

Compounds

See also

References

Japanese

Kanji

康

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. peace

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

康 (hiragana やすし, rōmaji Yasushi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

康 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

康 (khang, khăng, khương)

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