猩 · xīng
species of orangutan
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
species of orangutan
- Mandarin
- xīng
- Cantonese
- sing1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 猩 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 성
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7329
- Radical
- 犬 · 94
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 猩
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 星 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 星聲
Line 12626 · ⿰犭星 · 星聲 · source reference 3770170
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- sraeng · 所庚 反切 · #884
- Middle Chinese
- seng · 桑經 反切 · #937
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7089 · sraeng = 梗開二平庚生 · seng = 梗開四平青心
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- xīng
- kCantonese
- sing1
- kDefinition
- species of orangutan
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 94.9
- kTGH
- 2013:2718
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- xīng 21356.170
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xīng 1288.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xīng 408.050
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- xīng(13) xing(13)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- xīng粵sing1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 所庚 桑經
- Kangxi positions
- 0714.210
- Guangyun positions
- 187.04 195.14
- GSR references
- 0812z
- Cangjie
- KHAHM
- Four-corner
- 4621.4