爽

Translingual

Han character

爽 (Kangxi radical 89, 爻+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大大大大 (KKKK), four-corner 4003₄, composition ⿻大㸚)

Derived characters

• 鷞, 㼽

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 690, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19746
• Dae Jaweon: page 1104, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 543, character 15
• Unihan data for U+723D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		爽
alternative forms		⿻大⿰乂乂 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 爽
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 (爽) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
摤	*sʰlaŋʔ
磢	*sʰraŋʔ
漺	*sʰraŋʔ, *sraŋʔ
傸	*sʰraŋʔ
鷞	*sraŋ, *sraŋʔ
騻	*sraŋ
爽	*sraŋʔ
塽	*sraŋʔ
樉	*sraŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 大 + 㸚 – bright.

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) compares this to Drung sraŋ (“morning”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *b/s-raŋ (“morning, awake, alert”) as well as Khmer ស្រាង (sraang, “to be dim / faint (of early morning light); to glimmer”). Possibly of part of an Austroasiatic word family; see 亮 (OC *raŋs) for more.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 爽

1. bright; clear
2. frank; straightforward
3. refreshing; pleasurable; invigorating

   太爽了！  ―  Tài shuǎng le!  ―  This is so good!

4. happy; cheerful; joyful
5. (of health) well; to feel well
6. to deviate; to make mistake; to miss
7. to violate; to breach; to break

See also

• 痛快 (tòngkuài)

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Japanese

Kanji

爽

(Jōyō kanji)

1. refreshing; reinvigorating
2. resonant
3. sweet
4. clear
5. bracing

Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō); そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: さわやか (sawayaka, 爽やか, Jōyō); あきらか (akiraka, 爽らか); たがう (tagau, 爽う)

Compounds

• 爽(さわ)やか (sawayaka): refreshing, clear
• 爽快(そうかい) (sōkai): refreshing, invigorating
• 昧爽(まいそう) (maisō): dawn, daybreak

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Korean

Hanja

爽 • (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune–Reischauer sang, Yale sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 爽 (sảng, sửng, sượng, sững)

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