哽

哽 U+54FD, 哽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54FD ← 哼 [U+54FC] CJK Unified Ideographs 哾 → [U+54FE]

Translingual

Han character

哽 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口一中大 (RMLK), four-corner 6104₆, composition ⿰口更)

1. choked (with grief)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 191, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3680
• Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 626, character 9
• Unihan data for U+54FD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		哽

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
更	*kraːŋ, *kraːŋs
粳	*kraːŋ
埂	*kraːŋ, *kraːŋʔ
浭	*kraːŋ
稉	*kraːŋ
梗	*kraːŋʔ
哽	*kraːŋʔ
綆	*kraːŋʔ
鯁	*kraːŋʔ
挭	*kraːŋʔ
骾	*kraːŋʔ
郠	*kraːŋʔ
硬	*ŋɡraːŋs, *ŋɡraːŋs
鞕	*ŋɡraːŋs
丙	*pqraŋʔ
炳	*praŋʔ
邴	*praŋʔ, *praŋs
怲	*praŋʔ, *praŋs
苪	*praŋʔ
蛃	*praŋʔ
昺	*praŋʔ
昞	*praŋʔ
窉	*praŋʔ
柄	*praŋʔ, *praŋs
鈵	*praŋs
寎	*praŋs
病	*braŋs

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	哽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古杏切
Baxter	kaengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠæŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚaŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/kaŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨjŋX/
Li Rong	/kɐŋX/
Wang Li	/kɐŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɐŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gěng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gang2

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	哽
Reading #	1/1
No.	872
Phonetic component	丙
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	梗
Old Chinese	/*kraːŋʔ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gěng (geng³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gang² / ang² / kang²
• Eastern Min (BUC): gāng / gēng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ga³ / gaⁿ³ / geng³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kéng / kéⁿ / kíⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gěng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gěng
    • Wade–Giles: kêng³
    • Yale: gěng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geeng
    • Palladius: гэн (gɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gang² / ang² / kang²
    • Yale: gáng / áng / káng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gang² / ang² / kang²
    • Guangdong Romanization: geng² / eng² / keng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐŋ³⁵/, /ɐŋ³⁵/, /kʰɐŋ³⁵/

Note:

• gang2 - literary;
• ang2, kang2 - vernacular.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gāng / gēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaŋ³³/, /kɛiŋ³³/
Note:
• gāng - vernacular;
• gēng - literary.
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ga³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ka⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gaⁿ³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kã³³²/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: geng³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: geng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛŋ³³²/
Note:
• ga3/gaⁿ3 - vernacular;
• geng3 - literary.
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kéng
    • Tâi-lô: kíng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: keang
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɪŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan, Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kéⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kénn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kvea
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kẽ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɛ̃⁵³/
    • IPA (Tainan, Yilan): /kẽ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Sanxia, Lukang, Magong, Kinmen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kíⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kínn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kvie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kĩ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Lukang): /kĩ⁵⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kinmen): /kĩ⁵³/
Note:
• kéng/kēng - vernacular;
• kéⁿ/kíⁿ - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: kaengX

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraːŋʔ/

Definitions

哽

1. to choke (on food or fluid)
2. to block; to obstruct
3. to choke with sobs
4. (Cantonese) to swallow forcefully
5. (Cantonese, figuratively) to accept forcefully

Compounds

• 哽咽 (gěngyè)
• 哽哽
• 哽哽咽咽 (gěnggěngyèyè)
• 哽噎
• 哽噎難言 / 哽噎难言
• 哽結 / 哽结

References

• “哽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

哽

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: むせぶ (musebu, 哽ぶ)

Korean

Hanja

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

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