# 扃

| 扃 | U+6243, &#25155; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6243 |
| ← 扂 [U+6242] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 扄 → [U+6244] |

## Translingual
### Han character

扃 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸月口 (HSBR) or 戈尸月口 (ISBR), four-corner 3722$_7$, composition ⿸戶冋 or ⿸户冋)
* a door bar placed outside a door

#### Derived characters

* 𡹫, 𣕄, 𭵚, 𧍮, 𨩮

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 416, character 4
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11728
* Dae Jaweon: page 761, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2262, character 2
* Unihan data for U+6243

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 扃 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 苘 | *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ |
| 詗 | *qʰʷeŋs, *qʰʷeːŋʔ |
| 駉 | *kʷeːŋ |
| 坰 | *kʷeːŋ |
| 冋 | *kʷeːŋ, *ɡʷeːŋʔ |
| 絅 | *kʷeːŋ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ |
| 扃 | *kʷeːŋ |
| 炯 | *kʷeːŋʔ, *ɡʷeːŋʔ |
| 迥 | *ɡʷeːŋʔ |
| 泂 | *ɡʷeːŋʔ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jiōng, jiǒng (jiong$^1$, jiong$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄥ, ㄐㄩㄥˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gwing$^1$ / gwing$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jiōng
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jyong
*** Wade–Giles: chiung$^1$
*** Yale: jyūng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiong
*** Palladius: цзюн (czjun)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jiǒng
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄥˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jyǒng
*** Wade–Giles: chiung$^3$
*** Yale: jyǔng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeong
*** Palladius: цзюн (czjun)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi̯ʊŋ²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gwing$^1$ / gwing$^2$
*** Yale: gwīng / gwíng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gwing$^1$ / gwing$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: guing$^1$ / guing$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʷɪŋ⁵⁵/, /kʷɪŋ³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: kweng
Rime :
| Character | 扃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 青 (126) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 古螢切 |
| Baxter | kweng |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kweŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷeŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuɛŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwɛjŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /kueŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /kiweŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kiweŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jiōng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gwing$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤeŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 扃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jiōng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kweng › |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷˁeŋ/ |
| English | door bolt |
| 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 | 扃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6900 |
| Phonetic component | 冋 |
| Rime group | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 扃 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷeːŋ/ |

### Definitions

扃
* doorlatch
* clasp; latch; bolt; fastener (on some item)
* doorleaf
* to close; to shut; to bolt (a door)
* (Chinese mythology) Jiong of Xia (twelfth king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty)

#### Compounds

* 基扃
* 扃戶／扃户
* 扃扃
* 扃絹／扃绢
* 扃鍵／扃键
* 扃鐍／扃𫔎
* 扃門／扃门
* 扃關／扃关
* 泉扃
* 門不夜扃／门不夜扃

### References

* “扃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* door bar placed outside a door

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): けい (kei)、きょう (kyō)、へん (hen)
* Kun: かんぬき (kannuki)、とびら (tobira)

## Korean
### Hanja

扃 (eum 경 (gyeong))
* bolt for fastening a door from outside

## Vietnamese
### Han character

扃: Hán Nôm readings: quynh
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation