See also:
U+8591, 薑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8591

[U+8590]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8592]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿一田一 (TMWM), four-corner 44106, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𱤳, 𤒬, 𥗪

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1061, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32110
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3300, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8591

Chinese

trad.
simp. *
alternative forms
𧅁
𦷗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Originally , a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaŋ): semantic (grass; plant) + phonetic (OC *kaŋs, *ɡaŋ, *ɡaŋʔ).

Note that the simplified form (OC *klaŋ) is also a traditional character on its own.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kjaŋ (ginger). Compare Burmese ချင်း (hkyang:).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • gieo1/giao1/giunn1 - vernacular;
  • gyorng1/goeng1/gyoeng1/gyang1/gieng1 - literary.
Note:
  • kiuⁿ/kioⁿ/kiauⁿ - vernacular;
  • kiong/kiang - literary.
Note:
  • gion1 - Shantou;
  • giên1 - Chaozhou.
  • Wu
    • (Northern: Shanghai)
      • Wugniu: 1cian
      • MiniDict: cian
      • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 1jian
      • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕiã⁵³/
  • Xiang
    • (Changsha)
      • Wiktionary: jian1
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯æn³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter kjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/kiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/kĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ki̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
goeng1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]aŋ/
English ginger

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. 6260
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaŋ/

Definitions

  1. ginger

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • Lisu: ꓚꓬꓺ (tʃɑ̱), ꓚꓬꓮꓥꓺ (tʃɑ̱ŋ)
  • Spanish: kion, kión
  • Zhuang: gieng

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 253.

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. ginger

Readings

  • Go-on: こう ()
  • Kan-on: きょう (kyō)
  • Kun: はじかみ (hajikami)

Compounds

References

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: khương[1][2][3][4], cương[4][5][6]
: Nôm readings: gừng[1][2][3][4][5][6], gầng[4][5][6], cưng[2]

  1. chữ Nôm form of gừng (ginger)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Trần (2004).
  3. 3.0 3.1 Hồ (1976).
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Génibrel (1898).
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Bonet (1899).
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).