坰

坰 U+5770, 坰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5770 ← 坯 [U+576F] CJK Unified Ideographs 坱 → [U+5771]

Translingual

Han character

坰 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土月口 (GBR), four-corner 4712₀, composition ⿰土冋)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 226, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4985
• Dae Jaweon: page 462, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 432, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5770

Chinese

simp. and trad.		坰
alternative forms		冂 冋 ancient 埛

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (冋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
苘	*kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
詗	*qʰʷeŋs, *qʰʷeːŋʔ
駉	*kʷeːŋ
坰	*kʷeːŋ
冋	*kʷeːŋ, *ɡʷeːŋʔ
絅	*kʷeːŋ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
扃	*kʷeːŋ
炯	*kʷeːŋʔ, *ɡʷeːŋʔ
迥	*ɡʷeːŋʔ
泂	*ɡʷeːŋʔ

Character composed by the radical of the earth (土) and 冋 as a phonetical component; the latter component also points to the concept of "territory, area".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiōng (jiong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyong
    • Wade–Giles: chiung¹
    • Yale: jyūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiong
    • Palladius: цзюн (czjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwing¹
    • Yale: gwīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kweng

Rime
Character	坰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	青 (126)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古螢切
Baxter	kweng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kweŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷeŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/kueŋ/
Wang Li	/kiweŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiweŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwing1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤeŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	坰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiōng
Middle Chinese	‹ kweng ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁeŋ/
English	region distant from capital
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	坰
Reading #	1/1
No.	6897
Phonetic component	冋
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	扃
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːŋ/

Definitions

坰

1. Alternative form of 冂 (jiōng, “city outskirts”)

Compounds

• 坰牧
• 坰野
• 郊坰 (jiāojiōng)

 

Japanese

Kanji

坰

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. wilds

Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)

Korean

Hanja

坰 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng)

1. field
2. borderland, vicinity

Vietnamese

Han character

坰: Hán Nôm readings: quynh

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References

• Nom Foundation