爽

爽 U+723D, 爽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-723D ← 爼 [U+723C] CJK Unified Ideographs 爾 → [U+723E]

Translingual

Han character

爽 (Kangxi radical 89, 爻+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大大大大 (KKKK), four-corner 4003₄, composition ⿻大㸚)

Derived characters

• 鷞, 㼽, 傸

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 690, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19746
• Dae Jaweon: page 1104, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 543, character 15
• Unihan data for U+723D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		爽
2nd round simp.		𰋜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 爽
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
摤	*sʰlaŋʔ
磢	*sʰraŋʔ
漺	*sʰraŋʔ, *sraŋʔ
傸	*sʰraŋʔ
鷞	*sraŋ, *sraŋʔ
騻	*sraŋ
爽	*sraŋʔ
塽	*sraŋʔ
樉	*sraŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 大 + 㸚 – bright.

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) compares this to Drung sraŋ (“morning”), from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *b/s-raŋ (“morning, awake, alert”) as well as Khmer ស្រាង (sraang, “to be dim / faint (of early morning light); to glimmer”). Possibly of part of an Austroasiatic word family; see 亮 (OC *raŋs) for more.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 爽

1. bright; clear
2. frank; straightforward
3. refreshing; pleasurable; invigorating

   太爽了！  ―  Tài shuǎng le!  ―  This is so good!

4. happy; cheerful; joyful
5. (of health) well; to feel well
6. to deviate; to make a mistake; to miss

   • 女也不爽，士貳其行。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     女也不爽，士贰其行。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Nǚ yě bù shuǎng, shì èr qí xíng. [Pinyin]

     I the lass deviated not; thou the lad hast been on thy doubly disloyal way.

7. to violate; to breach; to break

   爽約／爽约  ―  shuǎngyuē  ―  to break an appointment

8. (Internet slang) a unit equivalent to 640 million yuan (CNY) (Used to satirize Chinese actress Zheng Shuang's annual income being as much as 640 million yuan for just acting in TV dramas. Popularized by a series of events of Zheng Shuang.)

See also

• 痛快 (tòngkuài)

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 爽 – see 驦 (“horse”). (This character is a variant form of 驦).

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Japanese

Kanji

爽

(Jōyō kanji)

1. refreshing; reinvigorating
2. resonant
3. sweet
4. clear
5. bracing

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: さわやか (sawayaka, 爽やか, Jōyō)、あきらか (akiraka, 爽らか)、たがう (tagau, 爽う)

Compounds

• 爽(さわ)やか (sawayaka): refreshing, clear
• 爽快(そうかい) (sōkai): refreshing, invigorating
• 昧爽(まいそう) (maisō): dawn, daybreak

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 爽 (MC srjangX). Recorded as Middle Korean 상 (sang) (Yale: sang) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰa̠(ː)ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [상(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Wikisource

爽 (eumhun 시원할 상 (siwonhal sang))

1. hanja form^? of 상 (“refreshing; pleasurable; invigorating”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 상쾌 (爽快, sangkwae, “refreshment”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

爽: Hán Nôm readings: sảng, sửng, sượng, sững

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