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升

升

升 U+5347, 升
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5347
← 卆
[U+5346] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 午 →
[U+5348]
See also: 昇 and 陞

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

升 (radical 24 十+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿 (HT), four-corner 24400, composition ⿱丿廾)

  1. arise, go up
  2. hoist
  3. advance
  4. an ancient measuring unit
  5. 46th hexagram of the I Ching
  6. 公升, i.e. litre

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 156, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2702
  • Dae Jaweon: page 353, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 33, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5347

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 升

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 升
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (升) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
升 *hljɯŋ
昇 *hljɯŋ
陞 *hljɯŋ
抍 *hljɯŋ, *ʔljɯŋʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 升
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 識蒸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕiŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiəŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 升 升
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shēng shēng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sying › ‹ sying ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-təŋ/ /*s-təŋ/
English 1/10th of a dǒu ⽃斗 rise (v.)

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 升
Reading # 1/1
No. 11300
Phonetic
component		 升
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 升
Old
Chinese		 /*hljɯŋ/

Definitions

升

  1. to rise
  2. to raise
  3. litre

Japanese

Noun

升 ‎(counter 升, hiragana ます, romaji masu)

  1. a unit of liquid measure equal to 1.8 liters or 1800 ml.
  2. a box used for measuring or serving sake in units of 1800 ml.

Kanji

升

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. measuring box

Readings

Korean

Hanja

升 • ‎(seung) (hangeul 승, revised seung, McCune-Reischauer sŭng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

升 (thăng, thưng)

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