TranslingualEdit
| 乗 | |
| 乘 | |
| 乘 |
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Pictogram (象形) – climbing a tree 木, with the feet visible. Etymology clearer in alternative form 椉. In this form, simplified to 禾 + 北 (tree + top, feet).
Han characterEdit
乘 (radical 4 丿+9, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹木中心 (HDLP), four-corner 20901, composition ⿻禾北)
- ride, ascend
- avail oneself of
- numerary adjunct (measure word) for vehicles
Derived charactersEdit
Related charactersEdit
See alsoEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 83, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 154
- Dae Jaweon: page 166, character 40
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 40, character 1
- Unihan data for U+4E58
ChineseEdit
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乘 | |
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ
- Wade-Giles: ch'êng2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chengr
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˋ
- Wade-Giles: shêng4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenq
- IPA (key): /ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sing4, sing6
- Yale: sìhng, sihng
- Cantonese Pinyin: sing4, sing6
- IPA (key): /sɪŋ²¹/, /sɪŋ²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
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| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 乘 | chéng | ‹ zying › | /*Cə.ləŋ/ | ride (v.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 乘 | shèng | ‹ zyingH › | /*Cə.ləŋ-s/ | vehicle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 乘 | shèng | ‹ zyingH › | /*Cə.ləŋ-s/ | team of four horses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
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Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 乘 | 1452 | 乘 | 蒸 | 0 | 繩 | /*ɦljɯŋ/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 乘 | 1458 | 乘 | 蒸 | 0 | 乗 | /*ɦljɯŋs/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DefinitionsEdit
- ride (chéng: a vehicle)
- multiply (chéng: multiply a number by another number)
- carriage drawn by four horses (shèng)
CompoundsEdit
JapaneseEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
乘 (seung)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 승 (revised: seung, McCune-Reischauer: sŭng)
- Name (hangeul): 탈 (revised: tal, McCune-Reischauer: t'al)
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