升

See also: 昇 and 陞

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 昇 枡 陞

See also

• 飛

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		升
alternative forms		昇／升 陞／升

两诏铜方升，秦朝颁行的标准量器，两侧刻有始皇二十六年和秦二世元年诏文。

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 升
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (升) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
升	*hljɯŋ
昇	*hljɯŋ
陞	*hljɯŋ
抍	*hljɯŋ, *ʔljɯŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēng (sheng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): seng / chin

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sêng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sheng
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹
    • Yale: shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheng
    • Palladius: шэн (šɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sing¹
    • Yale: sīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng / chin
    • Tâi-lô: sing / tsin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sefng, cyn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /t͡sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ³³/, /t͡sin³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /t͡sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /t͡sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /t͡sin⁴⁴/

Note:

• seng - literary ("to rise");
• chin - vernacular (measuring unit).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: sêng¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: seng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /seŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: sying

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
Baxter	sying
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing1

• 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/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 升

1. to rise
2. to raise
3. 46th hexagram of the I Ching
4. an ancient measuring unit
5. litre
6. (music) sharp (♯)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

升

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

1. rise, ascend
2. measuring box

Readings

• Go-on: 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)

Etymology 1

Noun

升(ます) • (masu)  (counter 升)

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.

Etymology 2

From that kanji form of 升 is similar to チート (chīto, “cheat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma̠sɨᵝ]
• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiːto̞]

Noun

升(ます) or 升(チート) • (masu or chīto) 

1. (video games, Internet slang) cheat

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Korean

Hanja

升 (eum 승 (seung))

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

升: Hán Nôm readings: thăng, thưng

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