糠

See also: 穅

糠 U+7CE0, 糠 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 9093₂, 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

trad.		糠
simp. #		糠
2nd round simp.		粇
alternative forms		穅／糠 康 粇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	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 (kang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hong¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khong / khng
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹khaon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kang
    • Wade–Giles: kʻang¹
    • Yale: kāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kang
    • Palladius: кан (kan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hong¹
    • Yale: hōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /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/

Note:

• khong - literary;
• khng - vernacular.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹khaon
    • MiniDict: khaon^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹khaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰɑ̃⁵³/

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• 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	hong1

• 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

1. chaff; bran; husks
2. crumbs

   麵包糠／面包糠  ―  miànbāo kāng  ―  bread crumbs

3. (of a radish) spongy
4. 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

糠

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: ぬか (nuka, 糠)

Compounds

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^(key): /nuka/

Noun

糠(ぬか) (nuka) 

1. rice bran

References

• 岩倉市郎 (1941) 喜界島方言集 [Kikai-jima Dialect Collection]‎^[1] (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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