驚

See also: 惊
驚 U+9A5A, 驚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9A5A
← 驙
[U+9A59]
CJK Unified Ideographs 驛 →
[U+9A5B]

Translingual

Han character

驚 (Kangxi radical 187, 馬+12, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿大尸手火 (TKSQF), four-corner 48327, composition ⿱敬馬)

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1446, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45013
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1970, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4576, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9A5A

Chinese

trad. 驚
simp. 惊*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 驚
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *kreŋ) : phonetic 敬 (OC *kreŋs) + semantic 馬, as horses are skittish (easily startled).

Etymology 1

Compare Old Khmer kreṅa (“to fear”), whence Khmer ក្រែង (kraeng, “to fear”), Thai เกรง (greeng, “to fear; to worry”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Within Chinese, cognate with 敬 (OC *kreŋs, “to be respectful; to warn”), 警 (OC *kreŋʔ, “to warn; to be on one's guard”) (Schuessler, 2007). A possible vocalic variant is 兢 (jīng, “to be cautious”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • geng1 - vernacular;
  • ging1 - literary.

Rime
Character 驚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舉卿切
Baxter kjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kiajŋ/
Li
Rong
/kiɐŋ/
Wang
Li
/kĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ging1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 驚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjæng ›
Old
Chinese
/*kreŋ/
English be afraid

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 驚
Reading # 1/1
No. 6877
Phonetic
component
敬
Rime
group
耕
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
驚
Old
Chinese
/*kreŋ/

Definitions

驚

  1. to fear; to be afraid
    驚咩啫?/惊咩啫? [Cantonese]  ―  geng1 me1 ze1? [Jyutping]  ―  What are you afraid of? What is there to be afraid of?
  2. (of a horse etc.) to be startled; to be shy
  3. to frighten; to scare
  4. scary; frightening
  5. fearfully; I'm afraid that ...

Synonyms

  • (to fear):
  • (to frighten):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (驚):
  • → Japanese: 驚(きょう) (kyō)
  • → Korean: 경(驚) (gyeong)
  • → Vietnamese: kinh (驚)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English game.

Pronunciation


Noun

驚

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, neologism) Alternative form of game. (Classifier: 隻/只 c)

Japanese

Kanji

驚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. wonder
  2. be surprised
  3. frightened
  4. amazed

Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

驚 (eumhun 놀랄 경 (nollal gyeong))

  1. Hanja form? of 경 (“surprised, startled”).

Vietnamese

Han character

驚: Hán Nôm readings: kinh

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