薨

薨 U+85A8, 薨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85A8 ← 薧 [U+85A7] CJK Unified Ideographs 薩 → [U+85A9]

Translingual

Han character

薨 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中心 (TWLP), four-corner 4421₁, composition ⿱⿳卝罒冖死 or ⿳𦭝冖死)

Derived characters

• 𠐿, 𤃫, 𥍇, 𩙛, 𩖎, 𪈘

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1062, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32147
• Dae Jaweon: page 1526, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3302, character 3
• Unihan data for U+85A8

Chinese

trad.		薨
simp. #		薨

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
蘉	*maːŋ
瞢	*mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ, *mɯŋs
懜	*mɯːŋs, *mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ
懵	*mɯːŋs, *mɯːŋʔ
甍	*mrɯːŋ
薨	*hmɯːŋ
夢	*mɯŋ, *mɯŋs
鄸	*mɯŋs

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	薨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	登 (130)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼肱切
Baxter	xwong
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hwəŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷəŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/xuəŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwəŋ/
Li Rong	/xuəŋ/
Wang Li	/xuəŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xwəŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fang1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	薨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hōng
Middle Chinese	‹ xwong ›
Old Chinese	/*m̥ˁəŋ/
English	to die (of king or prince)
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	薨
Reading #	1/1
No.	8992
Phonetic component	夢
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	薨
Old Chinese	/*hmɯːŋ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hōng (hong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwang¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hong / eng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hong
    • Wade–Giles: hung¹
    • Yale: hūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hong
    • Palladius: хун (xun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwang¹
    • Yale: gwāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gueng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong
    • Tâi-lô: hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hofng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: dated in Xiamen, dated in Zhangzhou, dated in Quanzhou, dated in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eng
    • Tâi-lô: ing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: efng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: xwong

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m̥ˤəŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmɯːŋ/

Definitions

薨

1. (archaic, of feudal lords or high officials) to pass away; to die

   會延平王成功薨，長子經嗣立，臺灣初稱東都，改明京以候桂王之蹕。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   会延平王成功薨，长子经嗣立，台湾初称东都，改明京以候桂王之跸。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: 查繼佐, 《東山國語》, 臺灣前語

   Huì Yánpíngwáng Chénggōng hōng, zhǎngzǐ Jīng sìlì, Táiwān chū chēng Dōngdū, gǎi Míngjīng yǐ hòu Guìwáng zhī bì. [Pinyin]

   When Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) passed away, his eldest son Jing succeeded to the throne. Taiwan was initially named Dongdu [The Eastern Capital], then changed to Mingjing [Capital of the Ming Dynasty] to await the arrival of the Prince of Gui.

2. (onomatopoeia) swarming; flocking; noisy

   螽斯羽，薨薨兮！宜爾子孫，繩繩兮！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   螽斯羽，薨薨兮！宜尔子孙，绳绳兮！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: circa 11th century BCE — 7th century BCE, The Classic of Poetry. The translation here emphasises the onomatopoeic nature of the ideophonic reduplications.

   Zhōngsī yǔ, hōnghōng xī! Yí ěr zǐsūn, shéngshéng xī! [Pinyin]

   Grasshoppers on the wing —
   Your racket goes hmoong-hmoong!
   No wonder your children —
   They are all like, bleng-bleng!

Synonyms

• (to pass away):

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• 下世 (xiàshì) (formal)
• 上天 (shàngtiān) (euphemistic)
• 上路 (shànglù) (euphemistic)
• 不在 (bùzài) (euphemistic)
• 不幸 (bùxìng) (Classical Chinese, euphemistic)
• 不祿 / 不禄 (bùlù) (archaic, euphemistic, of military officers)
• 亡
• 亡故 (wánggù) (literary)
• 仙逝 (xiānshì) (euphemistic)
• 仙遊 / 仙游 (xiānyóu) (euphemistic)
• 作古 (zuògǔ) (literary, euphemistic)
• 做鬼 (zuòguǐ) (colloquial)
• 傾世 / 倾世 (qīngshì) (literary)
• 傾亡 / 倾亡 (qīngwáng) (literary)
• 入寂 (rùjì) (Buddhism, of Buddhist monks)
• 凋謝 / 凋谢 (diāoxiè) (to die of old age)
• 化去 (huàqù) (euphemistic)
• 升天 (shēngtiān) (euphemistic)
• 即世 (jíshì) (literary)
• 去世 (qùshì)
• 合眼 (héyǎn) (euphemistic)
• 喪亡 / 丧亡 (sàngwáng) (literary)
• 喪命 / 丧命 (sàngmìng) (euphemistic)
• 喪生 / 丧生 (sàngshēng) (euphemistic)
• 嗚呼 / 呜呼 (wūhū) (euphemistic)
• 嗝屁 (gěpì) (Mandarin, vulgar, dysphemistic)
• 嚥氣 / 咽气 (yànqì) (colloquial)
• 回老家 (huí lǎojiā) (euphemistic, humorous)
• 圓寂 / 圆寂 (yuánjì) (of Buddhist monks or nuns)
• 壽終正寢 / 寿终正寝 (shòuzhōngzhèngqǐn) (euphemistic)
• 失氣 / 失气 (shīqì) (literary)
• 安息 (ānxī) (euphemistic)
• 安眠 (ānmián) (euphemistic)
• 小喇叭兒吹了 / 小喇叭儿吹了 (xiǎo lǎbār chuī le) (Beijing Mandarin)
• 就義 / 就义 (jiùyì) (to die a martyr)
• 崩 (bēng) (of a king, emperor, monarch, etc.)
• 崩殂 (bēngcú) (Classical, of a king, emperor, monarch, etc.)
• 彈老三 / 弹老三 (Northern Wu, informal, humorous)
• 往生 (wǎngshēng) (euphemistic)
• 忽然 (hūrán) (Classical Chinese, euphemistic)
• 掛 / 挂 (guà) (slang, humorous)
• 故 (gù)
• 故世 (gùshì) (euphemistic, chiefly of one's elders)
• 故去 (gùqù) (euphemistic, chiefly of one's elders)
• 斃命 / 毙命 (bìmìng) (pejorative)
• 早死 (zǎosǐ)
• 晏駕 / 晏驾 (yànjià) (of a king, emperor, monarch, etc.)
• 枯死 (kūsǐ) (literary, figurative)
• 棄世 / 弃世 (qìshì) (literary)
• 歸天 / 归天 (guītiān) (euphemistic)
• 歸西 / 归西 (guīxī) (euphemistic)
• 歸道山 / 归道山 (guī dàoshān) (literary, euphemistic)
• 死 (sǐ)
• 死亡 (sǐwáng) (formal)
• 死人 (sǐrén)
• 死去 (sǐqù) (informal)
• 死掉 (sǐdiào) (informal)
• 死翹翹 / 死翘翘 (sǐqiàoqiào) (informal, humorous)
• 死脫 / 死脱 (⁵shi-theq) (Wu)
• 殞 / 殒 (yǔn) (archaic)
• 氣絕 / 气绝 (qìjué) (literary)
• 永眠 (yǒngmián) (euphemistic, honorific)
• 沒世 / 没世 (mòshì) (literary)
• 沉眠 (chénmián) (euphemistic)
• 消忒 (Hakka, euphemistic)
• 物化 (wùhuà) (literary)
• 狗帶 / 狗带 (gǒudài) (slang, neologism)
• 畢命 / 毕命 (bìmìng) (formal, euphemistic)
• 病亡 (bìngwáng) (to die of illness)
• 病故 (bìnggù) (to die of illness)
• 病死 (bìngsǐ) (to die of illness)
• 病逝 (bìngshì) (to die of illness)
• 瘐死 (yǔsǐ) (of deaths in prison)
• 百年歸老 / 百年归老 (bǎiniánguīlǎo) (euphemistic, of the elderly)
• 盡命 / 尽命 (jìnmìng) (literary, euphemistic)
• 終 / 终 (zhōng) (literary, or in compounds, euphemistic)
• 絕 / 绝 (jué) (literary, or in compounds)
• 翹辮子 / 翘辫子 (qiào biànzi) (informal, humorous)
• 老了 (lǎo le) (euphemistic, of the elderly)
• 蒙主寵召 / 蒙主宠召 (méngzhǔchǒngzhào) (Christianity, euphemistic)
• 薨逝 (hōngshì) (of feudal lords)
• 被難 / 被难 (bèinàn) (to be killed in a disaster, political incident, etc.)
• 見背 / 见背 (jiànbèi) (literary, of one's parents or elders)
• 見閻王 / 见阎王 (jiàn Yánwáng) (figurative)
• 見馬克思 / 见马克思 (jiàn Mǎkèsī) (communism, euphemistic)
• 謝世 / 谢世 (xièshì) (literary)
• 賓天 / 宾天 (bīntiān) (of a king, emperor, monarch, etc.)
• 走 (zǒu) (euphemistic)
• 走去踮 (Hokkien, euphemistic)
• 身亡 (shēnwáng) (formal, usually from unnatural causes)
• 辭世 / 辞世 (císhì) (literary)
• 辭塵 / 辞尘 (cíchén) (literary, euphemistic)
• 逝世 (shìshì)
• 進棺材 / 进棺材 (jìn guāncái)
• 過世 / 过世 (guòshì)
• 過去 / 过去 (guòqù) (euphemistic)
• 過往 / 过往 (Hokkien, euphemistic, Teochew, euphemistic)
• 過身 / 过身 (guòshēn) (literary)
• 過面 / 过面 (Hokkien)
• 長山賣鴨卵 / 长山卖鸭卵 (Hakka, euphemistic)
• 長眠 / 长眠 (chángmián) (euphemistic, honorific)
• 閉眼 / 闭眼 (bìyǎn) (euphemistic)
• 隕落 / 陨落 (yǔnluò) (euphemistic)
• 離世 / 离世 (líshì) (euphemistic)
• 駕崩 / 驾崩 (jiàbēng) (of a king, emperor, monarch, etc.)
• 駕鶴西去 / 驾鹤西去 (jiàhèxīqù) (euphemistic)
• 駕鶴西遊 / 驾鹤西游 (jiàhèxīyóu) (euphemistic)
• 龍馭上賓 / 龙驭上宾 (lóngyùshàngbīn) (of an emperor)

 

Compounds

• 薨薨 (hōnghōng)
• 薨逝 (hōngshì)

 

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 薨

薨

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: みまかる (mimakaru, 薨る)

Korean

Etymology 1

Hanja

薨 (eumhun 죽을 훙 (jugeul hung))

1. (obsolete) hanja form^? of 훙 (“(of feudal lords or high officials) to pass away; to die”)

Etymology 2

Hanja

薨 (eumhun 많을 횡 (maneul hoeng))

1. (obsolete) hanja form^? of 횡 (“(onomatopoeia) swarming; flocking; noisy”)