# 糠

| 糠 | U+7CE0, &#31968; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CE0 |
| ← 糟 [U+7CDF] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 糡 → [U+7CE1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

糠 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火木戈中水 (FDILE), four-corner 9093$_2$, composition ⿰米康)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 912, character 31
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27105
* Dae Jaweon: page 1339, character 22
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3159, character 7
* Unihan data for U+7CE0

## Chinese

* 糠 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 糠 (星官) (Written Standard Chinese)

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 唐 | *ɡl'aːŋ |
| 煻 | *l'aːŋ |
| 糖 | *l'aːŋ |
| 搪 | *l'aːŋ |
| 蓎 | *l'aːŋ |
| 瑭 | *l'aːŋ |
| 餹 | *l'aːŋ |
| 篖 | *l'aːŋ |
| 螗 | *l'aːŋ |
| 塘 | *l'aːŋ |
| 鶶 | *l'aːŋ |
| 赯 | *l'aːŋ |
| 磄 | *l'aːŋ |
| 溏 | *l'aːŋ |
| 傏 | *l'aːŋ |
| 鎕 | *l'aːŋ |
| 榶 | *l'aːŋ |
| 嵣 | *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs |
| 庚 | *kraːŋ |
| 賡 | *kraːŋ |
| 鹒 | *kraːŋ |
| 康 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 穅 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 糠 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 槺 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 漮 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 躿 | *kʰlaːŋ |
| 慷 | *kʰlaːŋʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰlaːŋ) : semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 康 (OC *kʰlaːŋ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kāng (kang$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄤ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hong$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khong / khng
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$khaon
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kāng
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄤ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kang
*** Wade–Giles: kʻang$^1$
*** Yale: kāng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kang
*** Palladius: кан (kan)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hong$^1$
*** Yale: hōng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hong$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hong$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɔːŋ⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khong
*** Tâi-lô: khong
*** Phofsit Daibuun: qofng
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔŋ³³/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khng
*** Tâi-lô: khng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: qngf
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰŋ̍⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰŋ̍³³/
* khong - literary;
* khng - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: khang
Rime :
| Character | 糠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 唐 (101) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 苦岡切 |
| Baxter | khang |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʰɑŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʰɑŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kʰɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kʰaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /kʰɑŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /kʰɑŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kʰɑŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | kāng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hong$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰlaːŋ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 糠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3983 |
| Phonetic component | 庚 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 康 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʰlaːŋ/ |
| Notes | 俗同穅 |

### Definitions

糠
* chaff; bran; husks
* crumbs
    麵包糠／面包糠 ― miànbāo kāng ― bread crumbs
* (of a radish) spongy
* poor quality; worthless

### Compounds

* 不棄糟糠 / 不弃糟糠 (bùqìzāokāng)
* 十米九糠
* 吹糠見米 / 吹糠见米
* 塵垢秕糠 / 尘垢秕糠
* 播糠眯目
* 攮糠
* 燃糠照薪
* 燃糠自照
* 狧糠及米
* 白糠疹
* 礱糠 / 砻糠
* 秕糠 (bǐkāng)
* 稻糠
* 米糠 (mǐkāng)
* 糠市
* 糠油
* 糠秕 (kāngbǐ)
* 糠穗
* 糟糠 (zāokāng)
* 糠糜
* 糠糟
* 糟糠不厭 / 糟糠不厌
* 糟糠之妻 (zāokāngzhīqī)
* 糟糠妻
* 糠蝦 / 糠虾 (kāngxiā)
* 糠覈
* 舐糠及米
* 貧賤糟糠 / 贫贱糟糠
* 跳糠籮 / 跳糠箩
* 麥糠 / 麦糠 (màikāng)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: こう (kō)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)
* Kun: ぬか (nuka, 糠)

#### Compounds

* 粃糠(ひこう) (hikō): husks and bran

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 糠
* ぬか Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 糠 – see the following entry. :
| 【ぬか】 | [noun] 糠: rice bran |
(This term, 糠, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 糠
* のが Hyōgai
* irregular
For pronunciation and definitions of 糠 – see the following entry. :
| 【のが】 | [noun] 糠: (dialectal, Yamagata) rice bran |
(This term, 糠, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Kikai

* Kanji in this term
* 糠
* ぬか Hyōgai
* kun'yomi

### Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *noka, form Proto-Japonic *noka. Cognate with Japanese 糠 (nuka).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nuka/

### Noun

糠(ぬか) (nuka)
* rice bran

### References

* 岩倉市郎 (1941) 喜界島方言集 [Kikai-jima Dialect Collection]‎ (in Japanese), 中央公論社, page 206

## Korean
### Hanja

糠 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

糠: Hán Nôm readings: khang
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