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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女火金田日 (VFCWA), four-corner 28966, composition)

  1. silk fabrics
  2. used as a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 938, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27888
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1377, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3454, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7E52

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsrɯn
*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ, *ʔsɯːŋs
*ʔsɯːŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
*ʔsɯːŋ
*sʰɯːŋs
*zɯːŋ
*zɯːŋs
*sɯːŋ
*sɯːŋ
*ʔsɯŋs
*zɯŋ
*zɯŋ
*zɯŋ
*sʰɯːŋ
*zrɯːŋ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡zɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡zɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ziŋ/
Li
Rong
/d͡ziəŋ/
Wang
Li
/d͡zĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qíng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzing ›
Old
Chinese
/*[dz]əŋ/
English silk

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 16612 16631
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsɯːŋ/ /*zɯŋ/

Noun

  1. silk
  2. (less commonly) finely woven fabrics other than silk

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References