僧
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Translingual
Japanese | 僧 |
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Simplified | 僧 |
Traditional | 僧 |
Alternative forms
Note difference between Chinese form, which uses 曾, and Japanese shinjitai which uses 曽. Both forms are encoded under the same codepoint due to Han unification.
Etymology
Japanese shinjitai form: Simplified from 僧 (曾 → 曽).
Han character
僧 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12 in Chinese, 人+11 in Japanese, 14 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人金田日 (OCWA), four-corner 28266, composition ⿰亻曾 (GTKV) or ⿰亻曽 (J))
Related characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 117, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1076
- Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 222, character 1
- Unihan data for U+50E7
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
僧 |
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Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 僧 | ||||
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) | |||
Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts | |||
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *sɯːŋ) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 曾 (OC *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ) – a kind of person (a Buddhist monk).
Etymology
Clipping of 僧伽 (MC song gja, “sangha; community of monks, nuns, novices and laity”); see there for more.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zang1 / sang1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sên
- Eastern Min (BUC): cĕng
- Southern Min
- Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): 1sen
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄥ
- Tongyong Pinyin: seng
- Wade–Giles: sêng1
- Yale: sēng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: seng
- Palladius: сэн (sɛn)
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɤŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: zang1 / sang1
- Yale: jāng / sāng
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzang1 / sang1
- Guangdong Romanization: zeng1 / seng1
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/, /sɐŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sên
- Hakka Romanization System: sen´
- Hagfa Pinyim: sen1
- Sinological IPA: /sen²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: cĕng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɛiŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chng
- Tâi-lô: tsng
- Phofsit Daibuun: zngf
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sŋ̍³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng
- Tâi-lô: tsing
- Phofsit Daibuun: zefng
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sng
- Tâi-lô: sng
- Phofsit Daibuun: sngf
- IPA (Quanzhou): /sŋ̍³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng
- Tâi-lô: sing
- Phofsit Daibuun: sefng
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- chng, cheng - vernacular;
- sng, seng - literary.
- Dialectal data
Variety | Location | 僧 |
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Mandarin | Beijing | /səŋ⁵⁵/ |
Harbin | /t͡səŋ⁴⁴/ | |
Tianjin | /səŋ²¹/ | |
Jinan | /səŋ²¹³/ | |
Qingdao | /səŋ²¹³/ | |
Zhengzhou | /səŋ²⁴/ | |
Xi'an | /səŋ²¹/ | |
Xining | /sə̃⁴⁴/ | |
Yinchuan | /səŋ⁴⁴/ | |
Lanzhou | /sə̃n³¹/ | |
Ürümqi | /sɤŋ⁴⁴/ | |
Wuhan | /sən⁵⁵/ | |
Chengdu | /sən⁵⁵/ | |
Guiyang | /sen⁵⁵/ | |
Kunming | /sə̃⁴⁴/ | |
Nanjing | /sən³¹/ | |
Hefei | /sən²¹/ | |
Jin | Taiyuan | /səŋ¹¹/ |
Pingyao | /səŋ¹³/ | |
Hohhot | /sə̃ŋ³¹/ | |
Wu | Shanghai | /səŋ⁵³/ |
Suzhou | /sən⁵⁵/ | |
Hangzhou | /sen³³/ | |
Wenzhou | /saŋ³³/ | |
Hui | Shexian | /sʌ̃³¹/ |
Tunxi | /sɛ¹¹/ | |
Xiang | Changsha | /t͡sən³³/ |
Xiangtan | /t͡sən³³/ | |
Gan | Nanchang | /sɛn⁴²/ |
Hakka | Meixian | /sen⁴⁴/ |
Taoyuan | /sen²⁴/ | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | /sɐŋ⁵³/ |
Nanning | /t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/ | |
Hong Kong | /sɐŋ⁵⁵/ | |
Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /siŋ⁵⁵/ /t͡siŋ⁵⁵/ 俗 |
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /t͡sɛiŋ⁴⁴/ | |
Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /t͡saiŋ⁴⁴/ /saiŋ⁵⁴/ | |
Shantou (Teochew) | /t͡seŋ³³/ | |
Haikou (Hainanese) | /t͡sɔŋ³³/ /t͡seŋ³³/ |
- Middle Chinese: song
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*sɯːŋ/
Definitions
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 僧)
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Hanja
僧 • (seung) (hangeul 승, McCune–Reischauer sŭng)
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