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勢

勢

勢 U+52E2, 勢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52E2
← 勡
[U+52E1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 勣 →
[U+52E3]
See also: 势

Translingual

Han character

勢 (radical 19 力+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土戈大尸 (GIKS), four-corner 45427, composition ⿱埶力)

References

  • KangXi: page 149, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2422
  • Dae Jaweon: page 336, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 377, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+52E2

Chinese

trad. 勢
simp. 势

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (埶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
褹 *ŋr'eːds, *ŋeds
勢 *hŋjeds
藝 *ŋeds
囈 *ŋeds
埶 *ŋeds
蓺 *ŋeds
槸 *ŋeds
爇 *ŋʷjed
褻 *sŋed
暬 *sŋed
熱 *ŋjed
槷 *ŋeːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hŋjeds) : phonetic 埶 ‎(OC *ŋeds) + semantic 力 ‎(“power”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 勢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 祭 (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舒制切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕiajH/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiɛiH/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 勢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ̊et-s/
English circumstances, setting

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 勢
Reading # 1/1
No. 15089
Phonetic
component		 埶
Rime
group		 祭
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 丗
Old
Chinese		 /*hŋjeds/

Definitions

勢

  1. power; force
  2. tendency

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

勢

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. forces
  2. energy
  3. military strength

Readings

Compounds

  • 市勢 (しせい) ‎(shisei)
  • 水勢 (すいせい) ‎(suisei)
  • 手勢 (てぜい) ‎(tezei)
  • 中勢 (ちゅうせい) ‎(chūsei)
  • 病勢 (びょうせい) ‎(byōsei)
  • 落勢 (らくせい) ‎(rakusei)
  • 騰勢 (とうせい) ‎(tōsei)
  • 勢力伯仲 (せいりょくはくちゅう) ‎(seiryokuhakuchū)
  • 党勢 (とうせい) ‎(tōsei)
  • 猖獗 (しょうけつ) ‎(shōketsu)
  • 破竹 (はちく)の勢 (いきお)い ‎(hachiku no ikioi)

Korean

Hanja

勢 • ‎(se) (hangeul 세, revised se, McCune-Reischauer se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勢 (thế, thể)

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