晶

See also: 品

晶 U+6676, 晶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6676 ← 晵 [U+6675] CJK Unified Ideographs 晷 → [U+6677]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

晶 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日日日 (AAA), four-corner 6066₀, composition ⿱日昍)

Derived characters

• 𨼗, 𭲟, 𨗏, 橸, 𤩜, 𣊖, 𪱈, 曐, 曑, 𬁬, 曟, 曡, 㬪, 蕌, 𩅟, 𦣖

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 497, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14000
• Dae Jaweon: page 863, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1518, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6676

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		晶
alternative forms		精

Glyph origin

Triplication of 日 (“sun”).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīng (jing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): zing¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): den¹

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chîn
• Northern Min (KCR): céng
• Eastern Min (BUC): cĭng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): cheng / chiⁿ / cheⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zian¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jing
    • Wade–Giles: ching¹
    • Yale: jīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jing
    • Palladius: цзин (czin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zing¹
    • Yale: jīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: den¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ten³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chîn
    • Hakka Romanization System: jin^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: jin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sin²⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: céng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡seiŋ⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cĭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng
    • Tâi-lô: tsing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zefng
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɪŋ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cvy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sĩ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sĩ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsenn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zvef
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sẽ⁴⁴/

Note:

• cheng - literary;
• chiⁿ/cheⁿ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zian¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiaⁿ
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sĩã³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsjeng

Rime
Character	晶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子盈切
Baxter	tsjeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siajŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡siɛŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zing1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tseŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsleŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	晶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jīng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsjeng ›
Old Chinese	/*tseŋ/
English	bright, limpid
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	晶
Reading #	1/1
No.	6844
Phonetic component	晶
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	精
Old Chinese	/*ʔsleŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 晶

1. brilliant; glittering
2. crystal; quartz
3. ^† sun

References

• “Query for 晶”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

晶

(Jōyō kanji)

1. clear
2. crystal
3. diamond

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 晶らか)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)、てる (teru)、まさ (masa)

Compounds

Compounds

• 結晶(けっしょう) (kesshō): crystal
• 晶子(しょうし) (shōshi): crystallite

Proper noun

晶(あきら) or 晶(proper) • (akira or proper) [[Category:Japanese
|あきら]]

1. a unisex given name

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Korean

Hanja

晶 • (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune–Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

晶: Hán Nôm readings: tinh

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