靖

Translingual

Han character

靖 (radical 174 靑+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿手一月 (YTQMB), four-corner 0512₇)

1. pacify
2. appease
3. calm, peaceful

References

• KangXi: page 1381, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42570
• Dae Jaweon: page 1893, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4046, character 8
• Unihan data for U+9756

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Cantonese

Hanzi

靖 (Yale jing6)

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Japanese

Kanji

靖 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. peaceful, calm, easygoing

Readings

• Go'on: じょう (jō)
• Kan'on: せい (sei)
• Kun: 靖い (やすい, yasui), 靖んずる (やすんずる, yasunzuru), 靖んじる (やすんじる, yasunjiru), 靖 (やす, yasu)
• Nanori: はかる (hakaru), きよし, (kiyoshi), のぶ (nobu), おさむ (osamu), せい (sei), せいじ (seiji), しず (shizu), しずか (shizuka), しずむ (shizumu), やす (yasu), やすみ (yasumi), やすし (yasushi)

Etymology 1

From verb 図る (hakaru, “to intend, to plan, to set a goal or direction”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana はかる, romaji Hakaru)

1. A male given name

Etymology 2

Nominalization of kiyoshi, the pre-modern terminal form (終止形 (shūshikei)) of adjective 清い (kiyoi, “clean, pure”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana きよし, romaji Kiyoshi)

1. A male given name

Etymology 3

Nominalization of verb のぶ (nobu, “延ぶ, 伸ぶ: to grow, to extend”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana のぶ, romaji Nobu)

1. A male given name

Etymology 4

Nominalization of verb 治む (osamu, “to make something calm, to stabilize”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana おさむ, romaji Osamu)

1. A male given name

Etymology 5

Nominalization of adjective 静か (shizuka, “calm, quiet”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana しずか, romaji Shizuka)

1. A female given name

Etymology 6

From Sinitic 靖.

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana せい, romaji Sei)

1. A surname.
2. A female given name

Etymology 7

Probably from 政治 (seiji, “politics”), from the underlying idea of "calming or stabilizing a country", similar to the name Osamu.

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana せいじ, romaji Seiji)

1. A male given name

Etymology 8

Nominalization of verb 静む (shizumu, “to become quiet, to become settled”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana しずむ, romaji Shizumu)

1. A male given name

Etymology 9

Stem form of adjective 安い (yasui, “peaceful, calm, easygoing”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana やす, romaji Yasu)

1. A male given name

Etymology 10

From 休み (yasumi, “a rest, a break, a vacation”), the stem noun form of verb 休む (yasumu, “to rest, to take a break, to take a vacation”), from adjective 安い (yasui, “peaceful, calm, easygoing”) + auxiliary verb む (mu, “to become [adjective], to make something [adjective]”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana やすみ, romaji Yasumi)

1. A female given name

Etymology 11

Nominalization of yasushi, the pre-modern terminal form (終止形 (shūshikei)) of adjective 安い (yasui, “peaceful, calm, easygoing”).

Proper noun

靖 (hiragana やすし, romaji Yasushi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

靖 (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

靖 (pinyin jìng (jing4), Wade-Giles ching⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

靖 (tĩnh, tịnh)