拯

Translingual

Han character

拯 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手弓水一 (QNEM), four-corner 5701₃, composition ⿰扌丞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 427, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11991
• Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1876, character 8
• Unihan data for U+62EF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		拯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蒸	*kljɯŋ
烝	*kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs
篜	*klɯŋ
脀	*kljɯŋ
拯	*kljɯŋʔ
氶	*kljɯŋʔ
承	*ɡljɯŋ
丞	*ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs
巹	*klɯnʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhěng (zheng³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chéng / chín

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zing²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhěng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhěng
    • Wade–Giles: chêng³
    • Yale: jěng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeeng
    • Palladius: чжэн (čžɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cing²
    • Yale: chíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qing²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chéng
    • Tâi-lô: tsíng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zeang
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chín
    • Tâi-lô: tsín
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sin⁵³/

Note:

• chéng - literary;
• chín - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zing²
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsíng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siŋ⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyingX

Rime
Character	拯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie
Baxter	tsyingX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕɨŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕieŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciŋX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiəŋX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯əŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhěng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zing2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*təŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kljɯŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	拯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhěng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyingX ›
Old Chinese	/*təŋʔ/
English	lift up
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	拯
Reading #	1/1
No.	1410
Phonetic component	丞
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	拯
Old Chinese	/*kljɯŋʔ/
Notes	原音蒸上聲無切語， 此切爲五音集韻補

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 拯

1. to rescue; to save; to aid
2. (literary) to lift; to raise

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Japanese

Kanji

拯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. help

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan’yō-on: じょう (jō)
• Kun: すくう (sukuu, 拯う)

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Korean

Hanja

拯 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

1. help, save, aid
2. lift, raise

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 拯 (chửng)

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