邛

邛 U+909B, 邛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-909B ← 邚 [U+909A] CJK Unified Ideographs 邜 → [U+909C]

Translingual

Han character

邛 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一弓中 (MNL), four-corner 1712₇, composition ⿰工阝)

Derived characters

• 𪵹, 桏, 𦨰, 𨀯, 𦭭, 筇, 㧭, 𥞱, 𧊡

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1268, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39288
• Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3755, character 2
• Unihan data for U+909B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		邛
alternative forms		卭

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
缸	*kroːŋ, *ɡroːŋ
篢	*kluːmʔ, *koːŋ
贑	*kluːmʔ
涳	*ŋr'oːŋ, *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
江	*kroːŋ
肛	*kroːŋ, *qʰroːŋ
扛	*kroːŋ
杠	*kroːŋ
豇	*kroːŋ
茳	*kroːŋ
釭	*kroːŋ, *koːŋ, *kuːŋ
矼	*kroːŋ
玒	*kroːŋ, *koːŋ
虹	*kroːŋs, *koːŋs, *ɡoːŋ
腔	*kʰroːŋ
崆	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
羫	*kʰroːŋ
控	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
椌	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
悾	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
跫	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoŋ, *ɡoŋ
啌	*qʰroːŋ
谾	*qʰroːŋ, *qʰoːŋ
舡	*qʰroːŋ
缻	*ɡroːŋ
項	*ɡroːŋʔ
屸	*ɡ·roːŋ
功	*koːŋ
工	*koːŋ
疘	*koːŋ
魟	*koːŋ, *qʰoːŋ, *ɡoːŋ
攻	*koːŋ, *kuːŋ
愩	*koːŋ
碽	*koːŋ
貢	*koːŋs
羾	*koːŋs
空	*kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
箜	*kʰoːŋ
硿	*kʰoːŋ
埪	*kʰoːŋ
鵼	*kʰoːŋ
倥	*kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋʔ, *kʰoːŋs
鞚	*kʰoːŋs
叿	*qʰoːŋ
嗊	*qʰoːŋʔ
訌	*ɡoːŋ
紅	*ɡoːŋ
仜	*ɡoːŋ
葒	*ɡoːŋ
渱	*ɡoːŋ
鴻	*ɡoːŋ, *ɡoːŋʔ
汞	*ɡoːŋʔ
澒	*ɡoːŋʔ
鞏	*koŋʔ
巩	*koŋʔ
銎	*kʰoŋ, *qʰoŋ
恐	*kʰoŋʔ, *kʰoŋs
蛩	*ɡoŋ
筇	*ɡoŋ
桏	*ɡoŋ
邛	*ɡoŋ

Etymology

“distress”

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan གྱོང (gyong, “want, need, indigence”) (Schuessler, 2007). Possibly a variant of 窘 (OC *ɡrunʔ, “to be distressed”). Possibly further connected to 恐 (OC *kʰoŋʔ, “to fear”), 窮 (OC *ɡuŋ, “poor”) (ibid.). See these for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qióng (qiong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qióng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyóng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiung²
    • Yale: chyúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyong
    • Palladius: цюн (cjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kung⁴
    • Yale: kùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gjowng

Rime
Character	邛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠容切
Baxter	gjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guawŋ/
Li Rong	/ɡioŋ/
Wang Li	/ɡĭwoŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qióng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kung4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	邛
Reading #	1/1
No.	4076
Phonetic component	工
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蛩
Old Chinese	/*ɡoŋ/

Definitions

邛

1. (～州) (historical) Qiong Prefecture (a former prefecture of Sichuan, China)
2. (～縣) (historical) Qiong County (a former county in Sichuan, China during the Ming dynasty)
3. (historical) Qiong (a tribe in ancient China)
4. ^† a mound
5. ^† fatigue; sickness
6. ^† distress

   • 匪其止共、維王之邛。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     匪其止共、维王之邛。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Fěi qí zhǐ gòng, wéi wáng zhī qióng. [Pinyin]

     They do not discharge their duties, But only create distress to the king.

7. a surname

Compounds

• 邛崍／邛崃 (Qiónglái)
• 邛崍山／邛崃山 (Qiónglái Shān)
• 邛州
• 邛杖
• 邛縣／邛县
• 邛都

 

Japanese

Kanji

邛

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō)、ぐ (gu)

Korean

Hanja

邛 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邛: Hán Nôm readings: cung

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References

• Nom Foundation