黥

黥 U+9EE5, 黥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EE5 ← 黤 [U+9EE4] CJK Unified Ideographs 黦 → [U+9EE6]

Translingual

Han character

黥 (Kangxi radical 203, 黑+8, 20 strokes, cangjie input 田火卜口火 (WFYRF), four-corner 6039₆, composition ⿰黑京)

1. to tattoo criminals on the face or forehead

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1520, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48123
• Dae Jaweon: page 2055, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4751, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9EE5

Chinese

trad.		黥
simp. #		黥

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
涼	*ɡ·raŋ, *ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raŋs
凉	*ɡ·raŋ
椋	*ɡ·raŋ
綡	*ɡ·raŋ
輬	*ɡ·raŋ
諒	*ɡ·raŋs
掠	*ɡ·raŋs, *ɡ·raɡ
弶	*ɡaŋs
京	*kraŋ
麖	*kraŋ
鶁	*kraŋ
景	*kraŋʔ
鯨	*ɡraŋ
黥	*ɡraŋ
勍	*ɡraŋ
剠	*ɡraŋ
倞	*ɡraŋs
影	*qraŋʔ
璟	*qraŋʔ, *kʷraŋʔ
憬	*kʷraŋʔ
暻	*kʷraŋʔ
澋	*ɡʷraːŋʔ

Phonosemantic compound: 黑 ("black; a tattoo on face as a punishment") + 京. See also the original meaning of 墨.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qíng (qing²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): king⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kêng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cíng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing²
    • Yale: chíng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyng
    • Palladius: цин (cin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: king⁴
    • Yale: kìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: king⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: king⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɪŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kêng
    • Tâi-lô: kîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: keeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiɪŋ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: gjaeng

Rime
Character	黥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠京切
Baxter	gjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚiaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/giajŋ/
Li Rong	/ɡiɐŋ/
Wang Li	/ɡĭɐŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯ɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qíng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	king4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡraŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	黥
Reading #	1/1
No.	6833
Phonetic component	京
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	擎
Old Chinese	/*ɡraŋ/

Definitions

黥

1. (historical) to tattoo the face, one of the Five Punishments in Ancient China

Synonyms

• 墨 (mò)
• 黵 (dǎn)

Compounds

• 天黥
• 息黥補劓／息黥补劓
• 黥布
• 黥面 (qíngmiàn)
• 黥首 (qíngshǒu)

 

Japanese

Kanji

黥

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. tattoo, tattooing

Readings

• Go-on: ぎょう (gyō)^{←ぎやう (gyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: けい (kei)
• Kan’yō-on: げい (gei)
• Kun: いれずみ (irezumi, 黥)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
黥
いれずみ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 黥 – see the following entry.

【いれずみ】 [noun] a tattoo (an image made in the skin with ink and a needle) [noun] a punishment in which a criminals were given a tattoo as a mark of their criminal record [verb] to tattoo Alternative spellings 入れ墨, 入墨, 刺青, 文身

(This term, 黥, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

黥 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

1. tattoo punishment of branding a criminal

Vietnamese

Han character

黥: Hán Việt readings: kình

1. chữ Hán form of kình (“tatooing the cheek or face of criminals as punishment in ancient China”).