甑

Translingual

Han character

甑 (Kangxi radical 98, 瓦+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金日一女弓 (CAMVN), four-corner 8161₇, composition ⿰曾瓦)

1. boiler for steaming rice, pot

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 752, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21602
• Dae Jaweon: page 1159, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1432, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7511

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Chinese

trad.		甑
simp. #		甑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 甑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
潧	*ʔsrɯn
繒	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
增	*ʔsɯːŋ, *ʔsɯːŋs
憎	*ʔsɯːŋ
磳	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
曾	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ
矰	*ʔsɯːŋ
罾	*ʔsɯːŋ
熷	*ʔsɯːŋ
竲	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
橧	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
譄	*ʔsɯːŋ
蹭	*sʰɯːŋs
層	*zɯːŋ
贈	*zɯːŋs
僧	*sɯːŋ
鬙	*sɯːŋ
甑	*ʔsɯŋs
鄫	*zɯŋ
驓	*zɯŋ
嶒	*zɯŋ
噌	*sʰɯːŋ
鏳	*zrɯːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zèng (zeng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zang⁶ / zang³
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): zêng¹ / seng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zèng
    • Wade–Giles: tsêng⁴
    • Yale: dzèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzenq
    • Palladius: цзэн (czɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zang⁶ / zang³
    • Yale: jahng / jang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzang⁶ / dzang³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeng⁶ / zeng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐŋ²²/, /t͡sɐŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zêng¹ / seng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tseng / sṳ̂ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡seŋ³³/, /sɯŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsingH

Rime
Character	甑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子孕切
Baxter	tsingH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sieŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siŋH/
Li Rong	/t͡siəŋH/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭəŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯əŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zing3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*S-təŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	甑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zèng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsingH ›
Old Chinese	/*S-təŋ-s/
English	boiler for steaming rice
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	甑
Reading #	1/1
No.	16630
Phonetic component	曾
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甑
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯŋs/
Notes	曾轉註分化字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 甑

1. cauldron, rice pot

References

• “甑”, 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–
• http://cstc.lib.stu.edu.cn/Articleview.asp?ArticleID=6537

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Japanese

Kanji

甑

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: こしき (koshiki, 甑)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 甑 (tắng)

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