港

Note that, as in 巷, in Chinese, the bottom is 巳, while in Japanese, the bottom is 己.

港 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水廿金山 (ETCU), four-corner 3411₇, composition ⿰氵巷)

• KangXi: page 635, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17783
• Dae Jaweon: page 1042, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1668, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6E2F
• Unihan data for U+2F908

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːŋʔ, *ɡloːŋs) : semantic 水 (“river; water”) + phonetic 巷 (OC *ɡroːŋs).

Cognate with 江 (OC *kroːŋ, “river”) (Schuessler, 2007). The southern dialectal word originally meant "small river/stream", which is still preserved in some Min languages. The irregular pronunciation in Mandarin (expected Mandarin reflex is *jiǎng) originated from southern dialects where velars have not palatalized (Schuessler, 2007).

港

1. tributary of a larger river or lake
2. (dialectal) river
3. port; harbor

   軍港／军港  ―  jūngǎng  ―  naval port

   基隆港  ―  Jīlóng Gǎng  ―  Port of Keelung

4. large airport
5. Short for 香港 (Xiānggǎng, “Hong Kong”).

   港幣／港币  ―  gǎngbì  ―  Hong Kong dollar

   港人治港 [Cantonese]  ―  gong² jan⁴ zi⁶ gong² [Jyutping]  ―  Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong

6. (colloquial) Hong Kong-styled
7. (Hokkien) Classifier for fluids: stream
8. a surname

• Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of the pronunciation jiǎng.

港

1. Only used in 港洞.

• 湊

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←こう (kou, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: みなと (minato, 港, Jōyō)

From Old Japanese: 水(み) (mi, “water”) + な (na, possessive particle) + 門(と) (to, “gate”). Attested in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki as 水門.

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• (Tokyo) みなと [mìnátó] (Heiban – [0])[2]
• IPA^(key): [mʲina̠to̞]

港(みなと) • (minato) 

1. port

港(みなと) • (Minato) 

1. Minato (one of 23 special wards in Tokyo prefecture, Japan)
2. a male given name

From Middle Chinese 港 (MC kˠʌŋX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ha̠(ː)ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [항(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 港 (eumhun 항구(港口) 항 (hanggu hang))

1. Hanja form^? of 항 (“harbour; port”). [noun]

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

港: Hán Nôm readings: cảng

1. chữ Hán form of cảng (“port; harbor”).