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Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(radical 120 +13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 女火口X山 (VFRXU), four-corner 27917)

  1. rope, string, cord
  2. measure, restrain

References

  • KangXi: page 940, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27937
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1379, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3457, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7E69

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *ɦbljɯŋ
*mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *mreːŋʔ
*mliŋʔ
*ɦbljɯŋ
*ɦbljɯŋ
*ɦbljɯŋ
*ɦbljɯŋ, *ɦbljɯŋ, *b·lɯŋs, *mraːŋʔ
*b·lɯŋ
*mraːŋ, *mraːŋʔ
*mreːŋʔ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʂəŋ³⁵/
Harbin /ʂəŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /ʂəŋ⁴⁵/
/səŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʂəŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /ʃəŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂəŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /ʂəŋ²⁴/
Xining /ʂə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂəŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʂə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /sən²¹³/
Chengdu /suən³¹/
Guiyang /suen²¹/
Kunming /ʂuə̃¹/
Nanjing /ʂən²⁴/
Hefei /ʂən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /səŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ʂʐ̩¹³/ 繩子
Hohhot /sə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zəŋ²³/
Suzhou /zən¹³/
Hangzhou /sen³³/
Wenzhou /zeŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /ɕiʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ɕian⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʂən¹³/
Xiangtan /ʂən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /sɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /sun¹¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /seŋ²¹/
Nanning /seŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /siŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siŋ³⁵/
/t͡sin³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /siŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /saiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /siŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /seŋ³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (27)
Final () (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʑɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʑɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʑieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʑiŋ/
Li
Rong
/d͡ʑiəŋ/
Wang
Li
/d͡ʑĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡ʑʰi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shéng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shéng
Middle
Chinese
‹ zying ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə-m.rəŋ/
English string, cord

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 # 1/1
No. 9165
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɦbljɯŋ/

Definitions

  1. string; rope   (Classifier: c)
  2. to restrict; to restrain

Compounds

  • 井繩井绳
  • 信繩信绳
  • 克繩祖武克绳祖武
  • 尺步繩趨尺步绳趋
  • 引繩批根引绳批根
  • 引繩排根引绳排根
  • 扣子繩扣子绳
  • 拉花繩拉花绳
  • 捕繩捕绳
  • 月書赤繩月书赤绳
  • 正視繩行正视绳行
  • 毛繩毛绳
  • 沖繩島冲绳岛
  • 法繩法绳
  • 洋繩洋绳
  • 準繩准绳 (zhǔnshéng)
  • 火繩火绳
  • 玉繩玉绳
  • 瓦灶繩床瓦灶绳床
  • 甕牖繩樞甕牖绳枢
  • 矩矱繩尺矩矱绳尺
  • 砥平繩直砥平绳直
  • 糾繆繩違纠缪绳违
  • 糾繩纠绳
  • 紅絲繩红丝绳
  • 結繩结绳 (jiéshéng)
  • 結繩而治结绳而治
  • 結繩記事结绳记事
  • 絨頭繩绒头绳
  • 繩之以法绳之以法
  • 繩伎绳伎
  • 繩其祖武绳其祖武
  • 繩厥祖武绳厥祖武
  • 繩墨绳墨
  • 繩墨之言绳墨之言
  • 繩子绳子 (shéngzi)
  • 繩尺绳尺
  • 繩床绳床
  • 繩床瓦灶绳床瓦灶
  • 繩愆糾謬绳愆纠谬
  • 繩梯绳梯
  • 繩樞之士绳枢之士
  • 繩橋绳桥
  • 繩正绳正
  • 繩索绳索 (shéngsuǒ)
  • 繩結绳结
  • 繩繩绳绳
  • 繩趨尺步绳趋尺步
  • 繩鋸木斷绳锯木断
  • 纍瓦結繩累瓦结绳
  • 纜繩缆绳 (lǎnshéng)
  • 背繩墨背绳墨
  • 規矩準繩规矩准绳
  • 規矩繩墨规矩绳墨
  • 規矩鉤繩规矩钩绳
  • 規繩规绳
  • 赤繩綰足赤绳绾足
  • 赤繩繫足赤绳系足
  • 走繩索走绳索
  • 跳繩跳绳 (tiàoshéng)
  • 踏繩踏绳
  • 軟繩软绳
  • 轉珠繩子转珠绳子
  • 進退中繩进退中绳
  • 長繩繫日长绳系日
  • 長繩繫景长绳系景
  • 韁繩缰绳 (jiāngshéng)
  • 頭繩衣头绳衣
  • 麻繩麻绳

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. rope, line

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(seung) (hangeul , revised seung, McCune-Reischauer sŭng, Yale sung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thằng, thừng, xằng)

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