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拯

拯

Translingual

Han character

拯 (radical 64 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手弓水一 (QNEM), four-corner 57013, composition ⿰扌丞)

  1. help, save, aid
  2. lift, raise

References

  • KangXi: page 427, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11991
  • Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1876, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+62EF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 拯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蒸 *kljɯŋ
烝 *kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs
篜 *klɯŋ
脀 *kljɯŋ
拯 *kljɯŋʔ
氶 *kljɯŋʔ
承 *ɡljɯŋ
丞 *ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs
巹 *klɯnʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 拯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕɨŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕieŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciŋX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiəŋX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭəŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯əŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhěng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 拯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhěng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyingX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*təŋʔ/
English lift up

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 拯
Reading # 1/1
No. 1410
Phonetic
component		 丞
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 拯
Old
Chinese		 /*kljɯŋʔ/
Notes 原音蒸上聲無切語，此切爲五音集韻補

Definitions

拯

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Japanese

Kanji

拯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

拯 • ‎(jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune-Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拯 (chửng)

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