赬

See also: 赪

Translingual

Han character

赬 (Kangxi radical 155, 赤+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土金卜月金 (GCYBC), four-corner 4128₆, composition ⿰赤貞)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1214, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37016
• Dae Jaweon: page 1682, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3509, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8D6C

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Chinese

trad.		赬
simp.		赪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 赬
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
偵	*rtaːŋs, *tʰeŋ, *tʰeŋs
幀	*rtɯːŋs
湞	*rdeːŋ, *teŋ
貞	*teŋ
楨	*teŋ
禎	*teŋ
赬	*tʰeŋ
遉	*tʰeŋs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chēng (cheng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing¹ / zing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cheng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻêng¹
    • Yale: chēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cheng
    • Palladius: чэн (čɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cing¹ / zing¹
    • Yale: chīng / jīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing¹ / dzing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qing¹ / jing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: trhjeng

Rime
Character	赬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	丑貞切
Baxter	trhjeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰiᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰiɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰiæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰiajŋ/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiɛŋ/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶʰi̯ɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cing1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t.kʰ]reŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰeŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	赬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chēng
Middle Chinese	‹ trhjeng ›
Old Chinese	/*[t.kʰ]reŋ/
English	red
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	赬
Reading #	1/1
No.	17032
Phonetic component	貞
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	檉
Old Chinese	/*tʰeŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 赬

1. (literary) pale red

References

• “赬”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

赬

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): てい (tei), ちょう (chō)
• Kun: あか (aka)