央

央 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 中月大 (LBK), four-corner 5003₀, composition ⿻冂大 or ⿻𠀃人)

• 佒, 坱, 抰, 咉, 岟, 泱, 㹧, 怏, 姎, 柍, 殃, 映, 胦, 炴, 眏, 䄃, 秧, 䘧, 紻, 軮, 詇, 𧲱, 鉠 (𫓭), 鞅, 䬬, 駚 (𩧫), 䱀
• 㿮, 䒋, 英, 䇦, 雵, 𦁾, 㼜, 盎, 𩢥, 鴦 (鸯)

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

Unclear. Possibly a pictogram (象形) of a man with the neck in shackles — original form of 殃 (OC *qaŋ, “misfortune”).^[1] Later borrowed to represent 央 (OC *qaŋ, “center”) as an instance of jiajie (假借).

Shuowen interprets it as a person inside a house.

於 (OC ʔa) plus terminative suffix *-ŋ, hence literally "to get to be in the middle" (Schuessler, 2007). See 於 (OC ʔa) for further etymology.

央

1. center; middle
2. to end; to finish
3. to beg; to plead; to implore
4. (alt. form 殃) calamity; disaster
5. a surname

央

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 央央 (clarification of this definition is needed.)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: おう (ō, Jōyō)、よう (yō)
• Kan-on: よう (yō)、えい (ei)
• Kun: なかば (nakaba, 央ば)
• Nanori: あたる (ataru)、とおる (tōru)、なかば (nakaba)、ひさし (hisashi)、ひろし (hiroshi)、なか (naka)

From Middle Chinese 央 (MC 'jang).

• IPA^(key): [o̞ː]

央(おう) • (ō) ^{←あう (au)?}

1. centre, middle
2. (US) short for 央州 (“Oregon (a state of the United States)”)
   • 1918, 北米年鑑 [The North American Times Yearbook], number 8, Seattle, page 2:

     愛央二州の排日案

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

央(おう) • (Ō) ^{←あう (Au)?}

1. a male given name

From the verb 当(あ)たる (ataru, “to hit, to win, to be correct”).

• IPA^(key): [a̠ta̠ɾɯ̟]

央(あたる) • (Ataru) 

1. a male given name

From the verb 通(とお)る (tōru, “to go through, to pass”).

• (Tokyo) とおる [tòórú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [to̞ːɾɯ̟]

央(とおる) • (Tōru) 

1. a male given name

From the noun 央(なか)ば (nakaba, “half, middle”).

• IPA^(key): [na̠ka̠ba̠]

央(なかば) • (Nakaba) 

1. a male given name

From the Classical Japanese adjective 久(ひさ)し (hisashi, “long time”), modern form 久(ひさ)しい (hisashii).

• IPA^(key): [çisa̠ɕi]

央(ひさし) • (Hisashi) 

1. a male given name

From the Classical Japanese adjective 広(ひろ)し (hiroshi, “wide, broad, spacious, vast”), modern form ひろい (hiroi).

• (Tokyo) ひろし [híꜜròshì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [çiɾo̞ɕi]

央(ひろし) • (Hiroshi) 

1. a male given name

From the kanji's on'yomi reading of よう (yō).

• IPA^(key): [jo̞ː]

央(よう) • (Yō) 

1. a male given name

Compare nouns 央(なか)ば (nakaba, “half, middle”) and なか (naka, “inside, middle, center”).

• (Tokyo) なか [nàká] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [na̠ka̠]

央(なか) • (Naka) 

1. a male given name

央 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang)

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央: Hán Nôm readings: ương, trân

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