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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓水火 (TNEF), four-corner 44331, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1050, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31618
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3273, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+84B8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kljɯŋ
*kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs
*klɯŋ
*kljɯŋ
*kljɯŋʔ
*kljɯŋʔ
*ɡljɯŋ
*ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs
*klɯnʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ciŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiəŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsying ›
Old
Chinese
/*təŋ/
English twigs as firewood

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. 1406
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kljɯŋ/

Definitions

  1. to evaporate
  2. (cooking) to steam
    蒸餃蒸饺 (zhēngjiǎo)
  3. a torch made of hemp stalks or bamboo and wood in ancient times
    蒸燭蒸烛
  4. small pieces of firewood

Compounds

See also

References


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Derived terms

  •  () (musu)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chưng, chừng)

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