噌

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 曾 – to scold or shout at with one’s mouth.

Han character

噌 (radical 30 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口金田日 (RCWA), four-corner 6806₆)

1. scold, shout at

References

• KangXi: page 208, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4303
• Dae Jaweon: page 431, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 686, character 8
• Unihan data for U+564C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

噌 (jyutping cang1, zang1, Yale chang1, jang1)

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Japanese

Kanji

噌

Readings

• On: そう (sō), そ (so)
• Kun: かまびすし (kamabisushi)

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Korean

Hanja

噌 (hangeul 쟁, 증, revised jaeng, jeung, McCune-Reischauer chaeng, chŭng, Yale cayng, cung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

噌 (pinyin cēng (ceng1), chēng (cheng1), Wade-Giles ts'eng¹, ch'eng¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

噌 (tung)

References

• Nom Foundation