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Translingual

Han character

(radical 46 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 山月尸木 (UBSD), four-corner 22757, composition)

  1. high, lofty, noble
  2. steep, perilous

References

  • KangXi: page 314, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8203
  • Dae Jaweon: page 615, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 780, character 22
  • Unihan data for U+5D22

Chinese

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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (20) (20)
Final () (109) (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʒˠæŋ/ /d͡ʒˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖ͡ʐᵚaŋ/ /ɖ͡ʐᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʒaŋ/ /d͡ʒɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖ͡ʐaɨjŋ/ /ɖ͡ʐəɨjŋ/
Li
Rong
/d͡ʒɐŋ/ /d͡ʒɛŋ/
Wang
Li
/d͡ʒɐŋ/ /d͡ʒæŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɖ͡ʐʱɐŋ/ /ɖ͡ʐʱæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chéng chéng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzrɛng ›
Old
Chinese
/*[dz]ˤreŋ/
English 崢嶸 high, precipitous

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.

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 崢嶸峥嵘
  • 崢嶸歲月峥嵘岁月
  • 嶢崢峣峥
  • 歲月崢嶸岁月峥嵘
  • 頭角崢嶸头角峥嵘

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jaeng) (hangeul , revised jaeng, McCune-Reischauer chaeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chênh, tranh)

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