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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tɯʔ, *tɯŋ
*tɯŋ
*dɯŋ
*dɯŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  + 𡈼.

Han character

(radical 60 +12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹人山土大 (HOUGK), four-corner 28240, composition𡈼 or ⿲)

  1. summon, recruit
  2. fourth note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or sol

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 370, character 41
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10239
  • Dae Jaweon: page 697, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 842, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5FB5

Chinese

Etymology 1

trad.
simp.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂəŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂəŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²¹/
/t͡səŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /tʃəŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂəŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡sen⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂən³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡səŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡səŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sen³³/
Wenzhou /t͡seŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂən³³/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂən³³³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɨn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sən⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃen²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡seŋ⁵³/
Nanning /t͡seŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡siŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tiŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡siŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tiŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /teiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡seŋ³³/
/teŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡seŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (9)
Final () (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈiŋ/
Li
Rong
/ȶiəŋ/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tring ›
Old
Chinese
/*trəŋ/
English examine

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
Reading # 2/2
No. 17159
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tɯŋ/

Verb

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Compounds

Noun

  1. phenomenon; symptom
See also
  • (zhèng, “symptom”)
Compounds

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (9)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈɨX/
Li
Rong
/ȶiəX/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhǐ
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2
No. 17158
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tɯʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jing, chi) (hangeul , , revised jing, chi, McCune-Reischauer ching, ch'i, Yale cing, chi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trưng, chưng, chuỷ, rưng, trâng)

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