恆

恆 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 心一月一 (PMBM), four-corner 9101₇, composition ⿰忄亙)

• KangXi: page 383, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10528
• Dae Jaweon: page 714, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2294, character 16
• Unihan data for U+6046

Ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡɯːŋ) : semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 亙 (OC *kɯːŋs, “partial moon”).

May have originally been written 亙.

In Small Seal Script, the 月 in 亙 was written 舟.

恆

1. ^† (of the moon) to wax

   • 如月之恆，如日之升。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     如月之恒，如日之升。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Rú yuè zhī héng, rú rì zhī shēng. [Pinyin]

     Like the moon advancing to the full,
     Like the sun ascending the heavens

2. ^† to extend everywhere

恆

1. constant; regular; persistent
2. 32nd hexagram of the I Ching; “endurance” (䷟)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 恒)

1. always, constant

• Go-on: ごう (gō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: つね (tsune, 恆)
• Nanori: わたる (wataru); のぶ (nobu); ひさ (hisa); ひさし (hisashi)

恆 • (hang) (hangeul 항, revised hang, McCune–Reischauer hang, Yale hang)

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恆: Hán Nôm readings: hằng

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