升

升 U+5347, 升 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5347 ← 卆 [U+5346] CJK Unified Ideographs 午 → [U+5348]

See also: 昇 and 陞

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Han characterEdit

升 (radical 24 十+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿 (HT), four-corner 2440₀, composition ⿱丿廾)

1. arise, go up
2. hoist
3. advance
4. an ancient measuring unit
5. 46th hexagram of the I Ching
6. 公升, i.e. litre

Derived charactersEdit

• 昇 枡 陞

See alsoEdit

• 飛

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 156, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2702
• Dae Jaweon: page 353, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 33, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5347

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		升

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 升
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (升) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
升	*hljɯŋ
昇	*hljɯŋ
陞	*hljɯŋ
抍	*hljɯŋ, *ʔljɯŋʔ

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēng (sheng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing¹
• Min Nan (POJ): seng / chin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: shêng¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheng
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing¹
    • Yale: sīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng
    • Tâi-lô: sing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sefng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chin
    • Tâi-lô: tsin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cyn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕin³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕin⁴⁴/

Note:

• seng - literary;
• chin - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕɨŋ/▼

Rime
Character	升
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	識蒸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕɨŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕieŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕiŋ/
Li Rong	/ɕiəŋ/
Wang Li	/ɕĭəŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯əŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shēng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s-təŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljɯŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	升	升
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shēng	shēng
Middle Chinese	‹ sying ›	‹ sying ›
Old Chinese	/*s-təŋ/	/*s-təŋ/
English	1/10th of a dǒu ⽃斗	rise (v.)
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	升
Reading #	1/1
No.	11300
Phonetic component	升
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	升
Old Chinese	/*hljɯŋ/

DefinitionsEdit

升

1. to rise
2. to raise
3. litre

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 升

• 上升 (shàngshēng)
• 五穀不升／五谷不升
• 以升量石
• 免試升學／免试升学
• 入室升堂
• 公升 (gōngshēng)
• 升任 (shēngrèn)
• 升值 (shēngzhí)
• 升冪／升幂
• 升坐
• 升堂
• 升堂入室
• 升堂拜母
• 升天 (shēngtiān)
• 升學／升学 (shēngxué)
• 升學主義／升学主义
• 升官 (shēngguān)
• 升帳／升帐 (shēngzhàng)
• 升平 (shēngpíng)
• 升引
• 升斗
• 升斗之祿／升斗之禄
• 升斗小民
• 升旗 (shēngqí)
• 升格 (shēnggé)
• 升沉
• 升火

• 升班
• 升科
• 升空 (shēngkōng)
• 升等 (shēngděng)
• 升等考試／升等考试
• 升級／升级 (shēngjí)
• 升級換代／升级换代
• 升記號／升记号
• 升遐
• 升遷／升迁 (shēngqiān)
• 升降 (shēngjiàng)
• 升降機／升降机 (shēngjiàngjī)
• 升降舵
• 升騰／升腾 (shēngténg)
• 升高 (shēnggāo)
• 升高自下
• 回升 (huíshēng)
• 如日方升
• 序升
• 折腰升斗
• 提升 (tíshēng)
• 揚升／扬升
• 擢升 (zhuóshēng)
• 攀升
• 教猱升木
• 斗升

• 斗升之水
• 斗升之祿／斗升之禄
• 日升月恆／日升月恒
• 日月升恆／日月升恒
• 旭日初升
• 旭日東升／旭日东升
• 晉升／晋升 (jìnshēng)
• 朝升暮合
• 榮升／荣升
• 毫升 (háoshēng)
• 湧升流／涌升流
• 爬升
• 直升 (zhíshēng)
• 直升機／直升机 (zhíshēngjī)
• 竄升／窜升
• 裊裊上升／袅袅上升
• 設朝升殿／设朝升殿
• 調升／调升
• 超升
• 躍升／跃升
• 降升調／降升调
• 雞犬俱升／鸡犬俱升
• 雞犬升天／鸡犬升天
• 騰捷飛升／腾捷飞升
• 高升 (gāoshēng)
• 高升調／高升调

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JapaneseEdit

NounEdit

升 (counter 升, hiragana ます, rōmaji masu)

Kanji in this term
升
ます Grade: S
kun’yomi

1. a unit of liquid measure equal to 1.8 liters or 1800 ml.
2. a box used for measuring or serving sake in units of 1800 ml.

KanjiEdit

升

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. measuring box

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しよう (syou, historical)}
• Kan’on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しよう (syou, historical)}
• Kun: ます (masu, 升, Jōyō); のぼる (noboru, 升る)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

升 • (seung) (hangeul 승, revised seung, McCune-Reischauer sŭng)

1. (되 승): A unit of volume equivalent to about 1.8 L.

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

升 (thăng, thưng)

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