程

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *rleŋ): semantic 禾 ‎(“grain”) + phonetic 呈 ‎(OC *rleŋ, *l'eŋs)

Han character

程 (radical 115 禾+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹木口竹土 (HDRHG) or 竹木口一土 (HDRMG), four-corner 2691₄, composition ⿰禾呈)

References

• KangXi: page 854, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25081
• Dae Jaweon: page 1278, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2607, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7A0B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		程

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chéng (cheng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): thêng / têng / thiâⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'êng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chengr
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cing⁴
    • Yale: chìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiâⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: thiânn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tviaa
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiã²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiã²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiã¹³/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: têng
    • Tâi-lô: tîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: deeng
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɪŋ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thêng
    • Tâi-lô: thîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: teeng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɪŋ²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɪŋ¹³/
    • Note: thiâⁿ - vernacular; thêng/têng - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖiᴇŋ/▼

Rime
Character	程
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直貞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖiᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖiajŋ/
Li Rong	/ȡiɛŋ/
Wang Li	/ȡĭɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯ɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chéng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*(C.)lreŋ/, /*l<r>eŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*rleŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	程	程
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chéng	chéng
Middle Chinese	‹ drjeng ›	‹ drjeng ›
Old Chinese	/*(C.)lreŋ/	/*l<r>eŋ/
English	Chéng (a surname)	rule, norm
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	程
Reading #	1/1
No.	1435
Phonetic component	呈
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	呈
Old Chinese	/*rleŋ/

Definitions

程

1. journey, trip
2. schedule, agenda
3. A surname​.

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Japanese

Kanji

程

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. extent
2. degree
3. law
4. formula
5. distance
6. limits
7. amount

Readings

• Goon: じょう (jō)
• Kan’on: てい (tei)
• Kun: ほど (hodo), ほと (hoto)

Particle

程 ‎(hiragana ほど, romaji hodo)

1. "as much as"; upper limit

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Korean

Hanja

程 • ‎(jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

程 (trình)

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