盛

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 盛
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

盛 (radical 108 皿+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 戈尸月廿 (ISBT), four-corner 5310₇, composition ⿱成皿)

1. abundant, flourishing, growing
2. fill, filling, wax, waxing
3. contain
4. a surname

References

• KangXi: page 794, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23001
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2562, character 4
• Unihan data for U+76DB

See also

• 増 "increase"

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		盛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shèng (sheng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁴, sing⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): sēng / siāⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shêng⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenq
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing⁴, sing⁶
    • Yale: sìhng, sihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴, sing⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹/, /sɪŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sēng / siāⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: sīng / siānn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seng, svia
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɪŋ³³/, /ɕiã³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪŋ²²/, /ɕiã²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑiᴇŋ/, /d͡ʑiᴇŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	盛	盛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	常 (25)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	清 (121)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	是征切	承正切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇŋ/	/d͡ʑiᴇŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛŋ/	/d͡ʑiɛŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiæŋ/	/d͡ʑiæŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiajŋ/	/d͡ʑiajŋH/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛŋ/	/ʑiɛŋH/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛŋ/	/ʑĭɛŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛŋ/	/ʑi̯ɛŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chéng	shèng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[d]eŋ/, /*[d]eŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djeŋ/, /*djeŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盛	盛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chéng	shèng
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyeng ›	‹ dzyengH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]eŋ/	/*[d]eŋ-s/
English	put in (a receptacle)	full, abundant
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	盛	盛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1423	1425
Phonetic component	成	成
Rime group	耕	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	成	盛
Old Chinese	/*djeŋ/	/*djeŋs/

Definitions

盛

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References

• “Entry #7663”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

盛

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. prosper

Compounds

• 泡盛 (あわもり) ‎(awamori)

Readings

• Goon: じょう (jō)
• Kan’on: せい (sei)
• Kun: もる (moru), さかん (sakan), さかる (sakaru)

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Korean

Hanja

盛 • ‎(seong) (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盛 (thịnh, thình, thạnh)

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