殺青

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See also: 杀青

Chinese

to kill; to murder; to slaughter green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)
trad. (殺青)
simp. (杀青)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial () (21) (14)
Final () (75) (125)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II IV
Fanqie
Baxter sreat tsheng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠɛt̚/ /t͡sʰeŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚæt̚/ /t͡sʰeŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃæt̚/ /t͡sʰɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂəɨt̚/ /t͡sʰɛjŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʃɛt̚/ /t͡sʰeŋ/
Wang
Li
/ʃæt̚/ /t͡sʰieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂat̚/ /t͡sʰieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sha qīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
saat3 cing1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shā qīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ srɛt › ‹ tsheng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s<r>at/ /*ˁeŋ/
English kill green or blue

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 2/2 1/1
No. 11010 11362
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sreːd/ /*sʰleːŋ/
Notes

Verb

殺青

  1. (historical) to dry green bamboo strips on fire before writing on them
  2. (in tea manufacture) to heat green tea to prevent fermentation and preserve the green colour
  3. (figurative) to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc)​, to finalise (a manuscript)