# 庠

| 庠 | U+5EA0, &#24224; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EA0 |
| ← 废 [U+5E9F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 庡 → [U+5EA1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

庠 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿手 (ITQ), four-corner 0025$_1$, composition ⿸广羊)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 345, character 11
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9298
* Dae Jaweon: page 655, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 883, character 9
* Unihan data for U+5EA0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 样 | *ʔslaːŋ, *laŋ |
| 佯 | *zlaŋ, *laŋ |
| 詳 | *ljaŋ, *laŋ |
| 洋 | *ljaŋ, *laŋ |
| 翔 | *ljaŋ |
| 庠 | *ljaŋ |
| 祥 | *ljaŋ |
| 痒 | *ljaŋ, *laŋʔ |
| 姜 | *klaŋ |
| 羌 | *kʰlaŋ |
| 蜣 | *kʰlaŋ |
| 猐 | *kʰlaŋ |
| 唴 | *kʰlaŋs |
| 羊 | *laŋ |
| 徉 | *laŋ |
| 烊 | *laŋ |
| 蛘 | *laŋ, *laŋʔ |
| 眻 | *laŋ, *laŋs |
| 鴹 | *laŋ |
| 恙 | *laŋs |
| 羕 | *laŋs |
| 樣 | *laŋs |
| 漾 | *laŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ljaŋ): semantic 广 + phonetic 羊 (OC *laŋ)

### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lɨ̆ŋ (“convent, school”). (Can this etymology be sourced?)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xiáng (xiang$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xiáng
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: siáng
*** Wade–Giles: hsiang$^2$
*** Yale: syáng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyang
*** Palladius: сян (sjan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯ɑŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: coeng$^4$
*** Yale: chèuhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: cêng$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/
* Middle Chinese: zjang
Rime :
| Character | 庠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 邪 (17) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (105) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 似羊切 |
| Baxter | zjang |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /zɨɐŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ziɐŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ziɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /zɨaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /ziaŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /zĭaŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /zi̯aŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xiáng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | coeng$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-[ɢ]aŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ljaŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 庠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xiáng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ zjang › |
| Old Chinese | /*s-[ɢ]aŋ/ |
| English | school |
| 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 | 庠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14527 |
| Phonetic component | 羊 |
| Rime group | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 詳 |
| Old Chinese | /*ljaŋ/ |

### Definitions

庠
* (archaic) country school
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to teach

### Compounds

* 上庠 (shàngxiáng)
* 入庠
* 庠序 (xiángxù)
* 庠生
* 東庠 / 东庠 (Dōngxiáng)
* 膠庠 / 胶庠
* 遊庠 / 游庠
* 邑庠
* 郡庠

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* school; originally, a school in ancient China
    Synonym: 序

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぞう (zō)
* Kan-on: しょう (shō)
* Kun: まなびや (manabiya, 庠)

#### Compounds

* 庠(しょう)序(じょ) (shōjo, “school”)
* 庠(しょう)校(こう) (shōkō, “school”)

### Noun

For pronunciation and definitions of 庠 – see the following entry. :
| 【学まなび舎や】 | [noun] school, school building Alternative spelling 序 |
(This term, 庠, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

庠 (eum 상 (sang))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

庠: Hán Nôm readings: tường
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#### References

* Nom Foundation