# 閶

| 閶 | U+95B6, &#38326; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95B6 |
| ← 閵 [U+95B5] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 閷 → [U+95B7] |

## Translingual
### Han character

閶 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日弓日日 (ANAA), four-corner 7760$_6$, composition ⿵門昌)
* gate of heaven
* main gate of palace

#### Derived characters

* 𨇡

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1336, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41367
* Dae Jaweon: page 1842, character 19
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4304, character 5
* Unihan data for U+95B6

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 閶
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 昌 | *tʰjaŋ |
| 倡 | *tʰjaŋ, *tʰjaŋs |
| 猖 | *tʰjaŋ |
| 菖 | *tʰjaŋ |
| 閶 | *tʰjaŋ |
| 鯧 | *tʰjaŋ |
| 裮 | *tʰjaŋ |
| 琩 | *tʰjaŋ |
| 唱 | *tʰjaŋs |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): chāng (chang$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): chiŏng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cyong$^1$ / cyeng$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhiong
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: chāng
*** Zhuyin: ㄔㄤ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: chang
*** Wade–Giles: chʻang$^1$
*** Yale: chāng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chang
*** Palladius: чан (čan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: coeng$^1$
*** Yale: chēung
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: cêng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰœːŋ⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: chiŏng
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰuoŋ⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: cyong$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰyɒŋ⁵³³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: cyeng$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰyøŋ⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiong
*** Tâi-lô: tshiong
*** Phofsit Daibuun: chiofng
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɔŋ³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
* Middle Chinese: tsyhang
Rime :
| Character | 閶 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 昌 (24) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (105) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 尺良切 |
| Baxter | tsyhang |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cʰɨaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕʰiaŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | chāng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | coeng$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjaŋ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 閶 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1253 |
| Phonetic component | 昌 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 昌 |
| Old Chinese | /*tʰjaŋ/ |

### Definitions

閶
* Used in 閶闔／阊阖 (chānghé).

#### Compounds

* 金閶 / 金阊
* 閶門 / 阊门 (Chāngmén)
* 閶闔 / 阊阖 (chānghé)
* 閶闔風 / 阊阖风
* 閶風 / 阊风 (chāngfēng)

### References

* “閶”, 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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “阊”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 26.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* gate of heaven
* main gate of palace

#### Readings

* Go-on: しょう (shō)
* Kan-on: しょう (shō)
* Kan’yō-on: とう (tō)

## Korean
### Hanja

閶 • (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune–Reischauer ch'ang, Yale chang)
* gate of heaven
* zephyr