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
alternative forms		鯁／鲠 Cantonese; Hokkien

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 (“to swallow forcefully; to accept reluctantly”);
• ang2 - vernacular (“to bulge out”) 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
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gâⁿ
    • 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:
• kéⁿ/kíⁿ - vernacular (“to choke”);
• kéng/kēng - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: kaengX

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraːŋʔ/

Definitions

哽

1. to choke (on food or fluid)

   他吃飯的時候哽著了。 [MSC, trad.]
   他吃饭的时候哽着了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā chīfàn de shíhòu gěng zháo le. [Pinyin]

   He choked on food while eating.

2. to choke with emotion; to feel a lump in one's throat; to choke with sobs

   媽媽大聲哭泣，喉嚨哽得說不出話來。 [MSC, trad.]
   妈妈大声哭泣，喉咙哽得说不出话来。 [MSC, simp.]

   Māmā dàshēng kūqì, hóulóng gěng dé shuō bù chū huà lái. [Pinyin]

   Mom was crying loudly and she got so choked that she could not speak.

3. (Cantonese) to swallow forcefully
4. (Cantonese, figuratively) to accept reluctantly
5. (Cantonese) to bulge out and press onto oneself making it uncomfortable or painful

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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