See also:
U+9A5A, 驚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9A5A

[U+9A59]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9A5B]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 187, +12, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿大尸手火 (TKSQF), four-corner 48327, composition )

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1446, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45013
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1970, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4576, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9A5A

Chinese

trad.
simp. *

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kreŋ) : phonetic (OC *kreŋs) + semantic , as horses are skittish (easily startled).

Etymology 1

Compare Old Khmer kreṅa (to fear), whence Khmer ក្រែង (kraeng, to fear), Thai เกรง (greeng, to fear; to worry) (Schuessler, 2007).

Within Chinese, cognate with (OC *kreŋs, “to be respectful; to warn”), (OC *kreŋʔ, “to warn; to be on one's guard”) (Schuessler, 2007). A possible vocalic variant is (jīng, “to be cautious”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • geng1 - vernacular;
  • ging1 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter kjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kiajŋ/
Li
Rong
/kiɐŋ/
Wang
Li
/kĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ging1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjæng ›
Old
Chinese
/*kreŋ/
English be afraid

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 6877
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreŋ/

Definitions

  1. to fear; to be afraid
    [Cantonese]   geng1 me1 ze1? [Jyutping]   What are you afraid of? What is there to be afraid of?
  2. (of a horse etc.) to be startled; to be shy
  3. to frighten; to scare
  4. scary; frightening
  5. fearfully; I'm afraid that ...

Synonyms

  • (to fear):
  • (to frighten):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (きょう) (kyō)
  • Korean: 경(驚) (gyeong)
  • Vietnamese: kinh ()

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English game.

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) Alternative form of game. (Classifier: c)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. wonder
  2. be surprised
  3. frightened
  4. amazed

Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 놀랄 (nollal gyeong))

  1. Hanja form? of (surprised, startled).

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: kinh

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