姜
See also: 薑
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Translingual
    
    Han character
    
姜 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿土女 (TGV), four-corner 80404, composition ⿱𦍌女)
References
    
- KangXi: page 259, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6205
- Dae Jaweon: page 525, character 21
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1047, character 11
- Unihan data for U+59DC
Chinese
    
    Glyph origin
    
| Historical forms of the character 姜 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Shang | Western Zhou | Spring and Autumn | 
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | 
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Characters in the same phonetic series (羊) (Zhengzhang, 2003)  
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *klaŋ) : phonetic 羊 (OC *laŋ) + semantic 女 (“female”)
Etymology 1
    
| trad. | 姜 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 姜 | |
Commonly assumed to be related to 羌 (OC *kʰlaŋ) (Pulleyblank, 2000), though not necessarily (Schuessler, 2007); 羊 (OC *laŋ, “sheep”) in the graphs may be just phonetic or also semantic, signifying "names referring to nomads" (Schuessler, 2009).
Pronunciation
    
Definitions
    
姜
- a surname
- (mythology) name of a river, identified as a Qi stream near Mount Qi (Commentary on the Water Classic)
- 神農居姜水,以為姓。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Shuowen Jiezi, circa 2nd century CE
- Shénnóng jū Jiāng Shuǐ, yǐwéi xìng. [Pinyin]
- The Divine Farmer dwelt by the Jiang river, (whose name) he took as (his) surname.
 
 神农居姜水,以为姓。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
 
Compounds
    
Etymology 2
    
| For pronunciation and definitions of 姜 – see 薑 (“ginger”). (This character, 姜, is the simplified form of 薑.) | 
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Japanese
    
    Kanji
    
姜
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Compounds
    
- 姜黄 (kyōō): wild turmeric
Vietnamese
    
    
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