烝

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See also: 丞
烝 U+70DD, 烝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70DD
← 烜
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 烞 →

Translingual

Han character

烝 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 弓水一火 (NEMF), four-corner 17331, composition ⿱丞灬)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 671, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19019
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1080, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2202, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+70DD

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 烝
alternative forms 㷥
𤇶
𩟘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蒸 *kljɯŋ
烝 *kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs
篜 *klɯŋ
脀 *kljɯŋ
拯 *kljɯŋʔ
氶 *kljɯŋʔ
承 *ɡljɯŋ
丞 *ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs
巹 *klɯnʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs) : phonetic 丞 (OC *ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs, “to raise”) + semantic 灬 (“fire”).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“upper part; rise; raise”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 烝 烝
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 煑仍切 諸應切
Baxter tsying tsyingH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨŋ/ /t͡ɕɨŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕɨŋ/ /t͡ɕɨŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕieŋ/ /t͡ɕieŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ciŋ/ /ciŋH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiəŋ/ /t͡ɕiəŋH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭəŋ/ /t͡ɕĭəŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯əŋ/ /t͡ɕi̯əŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhēng zhèng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zing1 zing3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 烝
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhēng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsying ›
Old
Chinese 		/*təŋ/
English to rise (of steam); steam (v.t.)

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 烝 烝
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1407 1412
Phonetic
component 		丞 丞
Rime
group 		蒸 蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		蒸 證
Old
Chinese 		/*kljɯŋ/ /*kljɯŋs/

Definitions

烝

  1. † Original form of 蒸 (zhēng, “to steam”).
  2. † many; numerous
  3. † to offer (gifts, sacrifices, etc.)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

烝

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. many
  2. offer
  3. dedicate
  4. to steam

Readings

  • Go-on: しょう (shō)
  • Kan-on: しょう (shō)
  • Kan’yō-on: じょう (jō)
  • Kun: むす (musu, 烝す)、もろもろ (moromoro)

Proper noun

烝(すすむ) • (Susumu) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

烝 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

  1. rise
  2. steam
  3. many, numerous

Vietnamese

Han character

烝: Hán Nôm readings: chưng

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