# 剄

| 剄 | U+5244, &#21060; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5244 |
| ← 剃 [U+5243] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 剅 → [U+5245] |

## Translingual
### Han character

剄 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一一中弓 (MMLN), four-corner 1210$_0$, composition ⿰巠刂)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 139, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1990
* Dae Jaweon: page 317, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 340, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5244

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 葝 | *ɡeŋ, *ɡeŋ |
| 頸 | *keŋʔ, *ɡeŋ |
| 勁 | *kɯns, *keŋs |
| 鑋 | *kʰeŋ, *kʰeːŋs |
| 輕 | *kʰeŋ, *kʰeŋs |
| 涇 | *ɡeŋʔ, *keːŋ |
| 經 | *keːŋ, *keːŋs |
| 鵛 | *keːŋ |
| 巠 | *keːŋ |
| 剄 | *keːŋʔ |
| 烴 | *keːŋʔ |
| 徑 | *keːŋs |
| 逕 | *keːŋs |
| 桱 | *keːŋs |
| 蛵 | *qʰeːŋ |
| 陘 | *ɡeːŋ |
| 鋞 | *ɡeːŋ, *ɡeːŋʔ |
| 脛 | *ɡeːŋʔ, *ɡeːŋs |
| 踁 | *ɡeːŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *keːŋʔ) : phonetic 巠 (OC *keːŋ) + semantic 刂 (“knife”)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jǐng (jing$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ging$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kéng
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jǐng
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jǐng
*** Wade–Giles: ching$^3$
*** Yale: jǐng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiing
*** Palladius: цзин (czin)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ging$^2$
*** Yale: gíng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ging$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ging$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɪŋ³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kéng
*** Tâi-lô: kíng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: keang
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kiɪŋ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɪŋ⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: kengX
Rime :
| Character | 剄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 青 (125) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 古挺切 |
| Baxter | kengX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /keŋ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /keŋ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kɛŋ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kɛjŋ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /keŋ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /kieŋ$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kieŋ$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jǐng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ging$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤeŋʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*keːŋʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 剄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jǐng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ keng$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k]ˁeŋʔ/ |
| English | cut the throat |
| 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 | 剄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6803 |
| Phonetic component | 巠 |
| Rime group | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 剄 |
| Old Chinese | /*keːŋʔ/ |

### Definitions

剄
* (literary) to cut one's throat (Chinese ritual suicide, like seppuku in Japan)

#### Synonyms

* 刎 (wěn)

### Compounds

* 自剄／自刭 (zìjǐng)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* beheading

#### Readings

* Go-on: きょう (kyō)
* Kan-on: けい (kei)
* Kun: くびきる (kubikiru, 剄る)

#### Compounds

* 剄死

## Korean
### Hanja

剄 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune–Reischauer kyŏng)
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