曾
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TranslingualEdit
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Traditional | 曾 |
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Simplified | 曾 |
Japanese | 曽 |
Korean | 曾 |
Alternative formsEdit
When used in Korea or as a Japanese kyūjitai character, the upper component is 八 instead of 丷, which is also the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
Han characterEdit
曾 (Kangxi radical 73, 曰+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金田日 (CWA), four-corner 80606, composition ⿱丷𭥴(GHT) or ⿱八𭥴(JKV))
Derived charactersEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 503, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14299
- Dae Jaweon: page 877, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1521, character 3
- Unihan data for U+66FE
ChineseEdit
simp. and trad. |
曾 | |
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alternative forms | 曽 |
Glyph originEdit
Historical forms of the character 曾 | |||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Pictogram (象形) – a cooker for steaming food. The derivative 甑 (OC *ʔsɯŋs) refers to the original word.
Pronunciation 1Edit
DefinitionsEdit
曾
SynonymsEdit
- (already):
Synonyms of 曾
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 曾
Pronunciation 2Edit
DefinitionsEdit
曾
- (prefix) great-
- (literary) unexpectedly
- 誰謂河廣?曾不容刀。
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Shéi wèi Hé guǎng? Zēng bù róng dāo.
Shéi wèi Sòng yuǎn? Zēng bù chóngzhāo. [Pinyin] - Who says that the He is wide?
It will not admit a little boat.
Who says that Song is distant?
It would not take a whole morning to reach it.
誰謂宋遠?曾不崇朝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
谁谓河广?曾不容刀。
谁谓宋远?曾不崇朝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) Alternative form of 增 (zēng, “to increase”).
- a surname: Zeng
DescendantsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 曾
ReferencesEdit
- “曾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
JapaneseEdit
曽 | |
曾 |
KanjiEdit
曾
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 曽)
ReadingsEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
曾 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)
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VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
曾: Hán Việt readings: tằng[1][2][3][4], tăng[1][5][4][6][3][7]
曾: Nôm readings: tâng[1][6], tơn[6], tưng[1][6], từng[5][6][7]