憴

憴 U+61B4, 憴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61B4 ← 憳 [U+61B3] CJK Unified Ideographs 憵 → [U+61B5]

Translingual

Han character

憴 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 心口難山 (PRXU), four-corner 9701₇, composition ⿰忄黽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 404, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11293
• Dae Jaweon: page 744, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2360, character 17
• Unihan data for U+61B4

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (黽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
澠	*mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *ɦbljɯŋ
黽	*mlenʔ, *mliŋʔ, *mreːŋʔ
僶	*mliŋʔ
繩	*ɦbljɯŋ
譝	*ɦbljɯŋ
憴	*ɦbljɯŋ
鱦	*ɦbljɯŋ, *ɦbljɯŋ, *b·lɯŋs, *mraːŋʔ
蠅	*b·lɯŋ
鄳	*mraːŋ, *mraːŋʔ
鼆	*mreːŋʔ

Etymology 1

trad.		憴
simp.		𰑪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shéng (sheng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shéng
    • Wade–Giles: shêng²
    • Yale: shéng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sherng
    • Palladius: шэн (šɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing⁴
    • Yale: sìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: zying

Rime
Character	憴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	船 (27)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	食陵切
Baxter	zying
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦbljɯŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	憴
Reading #	1/1
No.	9168
Phonetic component	黽
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	繩
Old Chinese	/*ɦbljɯŋ/
Notes	見爾雅，又同譝

Definitions

憴

1. Only used in 憴憴／𰑪𰑪 (shéngshéng).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 憴 – see 譝 (“to praise”). (This character is a variant form of 譝).

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 110