擎

擎 U+64CE, 擎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64CE ← 操 [U+64CD] CJK Unified Ideographs 擏 → [U+64CF]

Translingual

Han character

擎 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿大手 (TKQ), four-corner 4850₂, composition ⿱敬手)

1. lift up, hold up, support

Derived characters

• 𱕨, 𢹘, 𨰈, 𩽡

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 458, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12808
• Dae Jaweon: page 807, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1952, character 3
• Unihan data for U+64CE

Chinese

trad.		擎
simp. #		擎
alternative forms		擏 㢣 檠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蟼	*kraː, *kreŋ, *kreŋʔ
憼	*kaŋʔ, *kreŋʔ
驚	*kreŋ
警	*kreŋʔ
儆	*kreŋʔ, *ɡreŋs
璥	*keŋʔ
檠	*kreŋʔ, *ɡreŋ, *ɡreŋs
敬	*kreŋs
擎	*ɡreŋ
曔	*ɡreŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qíng (qing²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): king⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khià / khiàng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khêng / gêng / kìn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kêng⁵ / kia⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶jin

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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/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khià
    • Hakka Romanization System: kia^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kia²
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰi̯a¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khià / khiàng
    • Hakka Romanization System: kia^ˇ / kiang^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kia² / kiang²
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰi̯a¹¹/, /kʰi̯aŋ¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khêng
    • Tâi-lô: khîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qeeng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɪŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /kʰiɪŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gêng
    • Tâi-lô: gîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: geeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡiɪŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kìn
    • Tâi-lô: kìn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kixn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /kin²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kin¹¹/

Note:

• khêng/gêng - literary;
• kìn - colloquial.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: kêng⁵ / kia⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khêng / khiâ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰeŋ⁵⁵/, /kʰia⁵⁵/

Note:

• kêng5 - literary;
• kia5 - vernacular.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶jin
    • MiniDict: jin^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³jjin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑin²³/

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• Middle Chinese: gjaeng

Rime
Character	擎
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): /*ɡreŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	擎
Reading #	1/1
No.	6886
Phonetic component	敬
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	擎
Old Chinese	/*ɡreŋ/
Notes	見莊子

Definitions

擎

1. to prop up; to hold up; to lift up

   書擎辣手裡／书擎辣手里 [Shanghainese]  ―  ¹sy ⁶jin-laq ⁵seu-li [Wugniu]  ―  to hold a book up in one's hand.

2. (Hakka) to raise one's hand or arm

Compounds

• 一柱擎天
• 噴射引擎／喷射引擎
• 奇擎
• 引擎 (yǐnqíng)
• 搜尋引擎／搜寻引擎 (sōuxún yǐnqíng)
• 擎受
• 擎天 (qíngtiān)
• 擎天之柱
• 擎天手
• 擎天柱
• 擎天架海
• 擎天玉柱
• 擎天駕海／擎天驾海 (qíngtiān jià hǎi)
• 擎手
• 擎拳合掌
• 擎架
• 擎蒼牽黃／擎苍牵黄
• 架海擎天
• 汽油引擎
• 眾擎易舉／众擎易举
• 隻手擎天／只手擎天

 

References

• “擎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

擎

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. lift up
2. hold up
3. support

Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei)、ぎょう (gyō)
• Kun: ささげる (sasageru)

Korean

Hanja

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

1. lift up
2. to support
3. to hold

Vietnamese

Han character

擎: Hán Nôm readings: kình

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