# 磬

| 磬 | U+78EC, &#30956; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-78EC |
| ← 磫 [U+78EB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 磭 → [U+78ED] |

## Translingual
### Han character

磬 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土水一口 (GEMR), four-corner 4760$_1$, composition ⿱殸石)

#### Derived characters

* 𡄇

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 836, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24454
* Dae Jaweon: page 1253, character 11
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2451, character 2
* Unihan data for U+78EC

## Chinese

* 磬 (法器) (Written Standard Chinese)
* Sounding stone (English)

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 殸 | *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs |
| 聲 | *qʰjeŋ |
| 謦 | *kʰeːŋʔ, *kʰeːŋs |
| 磬 | *kʰeːŋs |
| 罄 | *kʰeːŋs |
| 馨 | *qʰeːŋ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 殸 + 石 (“stone”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qìng (qing$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hing$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qìng
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cìng
*** Wade–Giles: chʻing$^4$
*** Yale: chìng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chinq
*** Palladius: цин (cin)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hing$^3$
*** Yale: hing
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hing$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hing$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɪŋ³³/
* Middle Chinese: khengH
Rime :
| Character | 磬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 青 (125) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 苦定切 |
| Baxter | khengH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʰeŋ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʰeŋ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kʰɛŋ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kʰɛjŋ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kʰeŋ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kʰieŋ$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kʰieŋ$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | qìng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hing$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[C.qʰ]ˤeŋ-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰeːŋs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 磬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | qìng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kheng$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[C.qʰ]ˁeŋ-s/ |
| English | suspend |
| 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 | 磬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10518 |
| Phonetic component | 殸 |
| Rime group | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 罄 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʰeːŋs/ |

### Definitions

磬
* stone chimes; sounding stone; qing
* (Buddhism) inverted bell (a Buddhist percussion instrument)

### Compounds

* 室如懸磬／室如悬磬
* 引磬
* 懸然如磬／悬然如磬
* 手磬子
* 朱弦玉磬
* 玉磬
* 磬子
* 磬折
* 磬控
* 笙磬同音
* 簪筆磬折／簪笔磬折
* 編磬／编磬 (biānqìng)
* 鐘磬／钟磬
* 飯磬／饭磬

### Descendants

* → Japanese: 磬(きょう) (kyō); 磬(けい) (kei)
* → Korean: 경(磬) (gyeong)
* → Vietnamese: khánh (磬)

### See also

* 毊／𪵑 (xiāo)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* upside-V-shaped gong

#### Readings

* Go-on: きょう (kyō)
* Kan-on: けい (kei)
* Kun: うちいし (uchiishi)、むなしい (munashii)、つきる (tsukiru)

#### Compounds

* 方磬(ほうけい) (hōkei): hōkyō, an instrument similar to the Chinese fangxiang

## Korean
### Hanja

磬 (eum 경 (gyeong))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

磬: Hán Nôm readings: khánh
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