See also:
U+84BC, 蒼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-84BC

[U+84BB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+84BD]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 140, +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿人戈口 (TOIR), four-corner 44607, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1050, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31627
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1512, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3266, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+84BC

Chinese edit

trad.
simp.
alternative forms
𦭆
𡶍

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sʰaːŋ, *sʰaːŋʔ): semantic (grass) + phonetic (OC *sʰaːŋ).

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-riŋ ~ s-r(j)aŋ (to live; to be alive; to give birth; raw; green) (STEDT). May be an old dialect variant of (OC *sʰleːŋ, “green; blue”). Also cognate with (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs, “to live”), (OC *sleŋs, “nature”), (OC *sleŋs, “surname”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1 edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (14)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter tshang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰaŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cong1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[tsʰ]ˁaŋ/
English deep blue or green

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
No. 1126
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰaːŋ/

Definitions edit

  1. blue; green
  2. white; greyish white

Compounds edit

Pronunciation 2 edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (14)
Final () (101)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter tshangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰaŋX/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cǎng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cong2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 2/2
No. 1131
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰaːŋʔ/

Definitions edit

  1. Used in 蒼莽苍莽 (cǎngmǎng, “boundless”).

Further reading edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. blue
  2. green

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Korean edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 푸를 (pureul chang))

  1. green
  2. blue
  3. to grow thick

Compounds edit

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: thương

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