証

証 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜口一卜一 (YRMYM), four-corner 0161₁, composition ⿰訁正)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1152, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35341
• Dae Jaweon: page 1619, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3951, character 17
• Unihan data for U+8A3C

Simplified from 證 (登 → 正). Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjeŋs): semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 正 (OC *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs). The character originally conveyed the meaning of "to admonish" and was later used in the sense of "proof" or "evidence."

Etymologically related to 正 (OC *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs).

証

1. (literary) to admonish

   • 主有失，皆交爭証諫。
     主有失，皆交争証谏。

     From: Lü Buwei, Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, 239 BCE

     Zhǔ yǒu shī, jiē jiāo zhēng zhèng jiàn.

     When the lord errs, (his advisors) compete against each other in admonishing and correcting him.

• (to admonish): 諍／诤 (zhèng)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03806

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to admonish

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: いさめる (isameru)

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 證)

1. prove, verify

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
• Kun: あかし (akashi, 証し)、あかし (akashi, 証)、しるし (shirushi, 証)
• Nanori: あきら (akira)、つく (tsuku)、み (mi)

From the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 明(あ)かす (akasu, “to illuminate; to reveal”).

• (Tokyo) あかし (Heiban – )
• IPA^(key):

証(あかし) • (akashi) 

1. proof, evidence, testimony

   Synonyms: 証拠 (shōko), 証明 (shōmei), 証 (shō)

   友(ゆう)情(じょう)の証(あかし)

   yūjō no akashi

   symbol of friendship

From Middle Chinese 證 (MC tsyingH)

• (Tokyo) しょー (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

証(しょう) • (shō) 

1. proof, verification

   Synonyms: 証拠 (shōko), 証 (akashi)

   • 1889, 三遊亭圓朝, edited by 鈴木行三, 霧陰伊香保湯煙‎, 新字新仮名 edition, 青空文庫:

     警(けい)「先(せん)方(ぽう)から先(さき)に手(て)出(だ)しをした証(しょう)があるか」

     Kei “Senpō kara saki ni tedashi o shita shō ga aru ka”

     Police captain: “Do you have proof that the other party put his hands on you first?”

2. (Buddhism) enlightenment
3. (traditional Chinese medicine) symptoms

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

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証: Hán Nôm readings: chứng, chống, chững, chừng

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