宮

宮 U+5BAE, 宮 ← 宭[U+5BAD] CJK Unified Ideographs 宯 →[U+5BAF]

宮 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+7, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 十口竹口 (JRHR), four-corner 30606, composition ⿱宀呂)

• 𠹒, 𫱜, 𢞏, 㴦, 熍, 𦞨, 𧎡, 𩘎, 𨜳, 𢾮, 𣪯, 𦵡, 𤹜

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 285, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7156
• Dae Jaweon: page 564, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 936, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5BAE

trad. 宮 simp. 宫

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 宀 + 呂: many rooms under a roof — a mansion.

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qim (“house; pit; womb”); see there for hypothesized cognates.

宮

1. (archaic) house; mansion; dwelling
   • 上古穴居而野處，後世聖人易之以宮室。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]上古穴居而野处，后世圣人易之以宫室。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]From: I Ching, 11th – 8th century BCEShànggǔ xuéjū ér yěchǔ, hòushì shèngrén yì zhī yǐ gōngshì. [Pinyin]In times of yore people dwelled in caves or lived in the open wilderness. Later, wise people devised houses to replace that way of life.
2. (architecture) palace
3. (architecture, religion) temple; shrine
   • 秋，丹桓宮之楹。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]秋，丹桓宫之楹。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4th century BCEQiū, dān Huán gōng zhī yíng. [Pinyin]In the autumn, the pillars in the temple of the late Duke Huan were painted red with vermilion.
4. (anatomy, in compounds) short for 子宮／子宫 (zǐgōng, “womb; uterus”) 宮頸／宫颈 ― gōngjǐng ― cervix
5. (music) the first note of the Chinese pentatonic scale
   • 宮者，容也，含也，含容四時者也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]宫者，容也，含也，含容四时者也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]From: Ban Gu, The Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall, 79 CE, translated based on Tjan Tjoe Som’s versionGōng zhě, róng yě, hán yě, hánróng sìshí zhě yě. [Pinyin]Gōng means róng ‘to contain’; hán ‘to hold’; it contains and holds the four seasons
6. (historical law) castration as a punishment
7. (obsolete) to surround; to encircle
8. a surname

In reference to temples, 宮 / 宫 (gōng) is used for traditional deities considered to rank highly in the celestial bureaucracy, such as Mazu who was honored by the Qing dynasty as the “Queen of Heaven” after their successful invasion of Taiwan. In earlier history, it also referred to ancestral shrines.

• (Chinese pentatonic scale) 宮 / 宫 (gōng), 商 (shāng), 角, 徵 / 征, 羽

• (historical punishment): 五刑 (wǔxíng)

• (house):

• (temple): 廟／庙 (miào)

• 闕／阙 (què), 殿 (diàn), 宸 (chén)

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. a shrine; a palace

• Go-on: く (ku, Jōyō †)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)←きゆう (kyuu, historical)
• Kan’yō-on: ぐう (gū, Jōyō)
• Kun: みや (miya, 宮, Jōyō)
• Nanori: いえ (ie)、たか (taka)

Kanji in this term 宮 みやGrade: 3 kun’yomi

/mi1ya/ → /miya/

From Old Japanese. A compound of 神(み) or 御(み) (mi-, spiritual honorific) + 屋(や) (ya, “house”).[1][2][3][4]

• (Tokyo) みや [mìyá] (Heiban – [0])[5][2]
• IPA(key): [mʲija̠]

宮(みや) • (miya)

1. (Shinto) the place where a god resides: a shrine
   • [6] Miya. ミヤ (宮) 神 (Camis)の社.
2. (Buddhism) a temple holding a Buddhist statue
3. the place where a ruler resides: a palace
   • [6] Miya. ミヤ (宮) 国王の子. また, 国王の宮殿
4. a member of the imperial family
   • [6] Miya. ミヤ (宮) 国王の子. また, 国王の宮殿

宮(みや) • (Miya)

1. a surname
2. an old name for a region in the Atsuta area of Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, where the Atsuta Shrine is located

Kanji in this term 宮 きゅうGrade: 3 kan’on

From Middle Chinese 宮 (MC kjuwng, “dwelling; palace; note on a scale”). Compare literary reading of Hokkien 宮 / 宫 (kiong).

• (Tokyo) きゅう [kyúꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA(key): [kʲɨː]

宮(きゅう) • (kyū) ←きゆう (kyuu)?

1. a palace
2. (traditional music of China and Japan) the keynote or tonic of a musical scale, such as do in the do re mi scale notation of solfège
3. short for 宮刑: literally “palace punishment”, this consisted of castration for men and sequestration in the palace for women
4. (astronomy, astrology) a zodiac sign or house, defined as one-twelfth of the circle of the ecliptic 黄(おう)道(どう)十(じゅう)二(に)宮(きゅう)、宝(ほう)瓶(へい)宮(きゅう)ōdō jūni kyū, hōhei kyūthe twelve signs of the zodiac, the house of Aquarius

• “宮”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026

From Middle Chinese 宮 (MC kjuwng). Recorded as Middle Korean 그ᇰ (kung) (Yale: kung) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

宮 (eumhun 집 궁 (jip gung)) 宮 (eumhun 대궐 궁 (daegwol gung))

1. hanja form? of 궁 (“house”)
2. hanja form? of 궁 (“palace”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

宮: Hán Việt readings: cung[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] 宮: Nôm readings: khung[1], trong[1]

1. chữ Hán form of cung
   1. palace
   2. first note in the classic pentatonic scale
2. chữ Nôm form of khung (“frame”)
3. chữ Nôm form of trong (“in; inside; within”)