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淨

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See also: 凈, 浄, and 净
淨 U+6DE8, 淨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DE8
← 淧
[U+6DE7]
CJK Unified Ideographs 淩 →
[U+6DE9]

Translingual

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Han character

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淨 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, Cangjie input 水月尸木 (EBSD), four-corner 32157, composition ⿰氵爭)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 630, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17669
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1033, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 3, page 1655, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6DE8

Chinese

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trad. 淨/凈*/净*
simp. 净*
alternative forms 浄
㵾/𪷍
瀞
𩓞

Glyph origin

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Etymology 1

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Likely related to 清 (OC *sʰleŋ, “clean, pure”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • zing6 - literary;
  • zeng6 - vernacular.
Note:
  • zing5 - literary;
  • zyor5/zoe5/zyann5/ziann5 - vernacular (e.g. 淨公).
Note:
  • chēng - literary;
  • chiāⁿ - vernacular (“painted-face role”);
  • chīⁿ - vernacular (limited, e.g. 尖淨).
Note: gnin - used in 乾淨.

Rime
Character 淨
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 疾政切
Baxter dzjengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ziᴇŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ziɛŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ziæŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ziajŋH/
Li
Rong
/d͡ziɛŋH/
Wang
Li
/d͡zĭɛŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱi̯ɛŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jìng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zing6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 淨 淨
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jìng jìng
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzjengH › ‹ dzjengH ›
Old
Chinese
/*N-tseŋ-s/ /*m-tseŋ-s/
English clean (adj.) cleanse (v.t.)

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 淨
Reading # 1/1
No. 17157
Phonetic
component
争
Rime
group
耕
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
淨
Old
Chinese
/*zeŋs/
Notes 見墨子,說文靜聲

Definitions

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淨

  1. clean; unspoilt
    把衣服洗淨/把衣服洗净  ―  bǎ yīfú xǐ jìng  ―  to wash clothes clean
  2. (Cantonese) pure; with nothing else
    一碗淨麵/一碗净面 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 wun2 zing6 min6 [Jyutping]  ―  a bowl of noodles with nothing else
  3. to clean; to cleanse
  4. finished; with nothing left
  5. (of an amount) net
    Antonym: 毛 (máo)
    淨利/净利  ―  jìnglì  ―  net income; net profit
  6. only; merely; nothing but
    你別淨說好聽的。 [MSC, trad.]
    你别净说好听的。 [MSC, simp.]
    Nǐ bié jìng shuō hǎotīng de. [Pinyin]
    Don't say only good things.
    呢間壽司鋪淨做外賣,唔做堂食。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    呢间寿司铺净做外卖,唔做堂食。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    nei1 gaan1 sau6 si1 pou3-2 zing6 zou6 ngoi6 maai6, m4 zou6 tong4 sik6. [Jyutping]
    This sushi restaurant only does take-out and not dine-in.
  7. (Cantonese) alternative form of 剩 (“to be left; to remain”)
  8. all; all the time
  9. (opera) painted-face role
Synonyms
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Compounds

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of 淨 – see 埩 (“moat around the gate of the capital of ancient state of Lu”).
(This character is a variant form of 埩).

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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淨 (Teochew)

  1. to chase
  2. to drive away; to chase away

References

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  • “淨”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “净”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 271.

Japanese

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Shinjitai 浄
Kyūjitai 淨

Kanji

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淨

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 浄)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 浄

Readings

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  • Go-on: じょう (jō)
  • Kan-on: せい (sei)
  • Kun: きよい (kiyoi)

Korean

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Hanja

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淨 (eum 정 (jeong))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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淨: Hán Nôm readings: gianh, tạnh, tĩnh, tịnh

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