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Translingual
Han character
拯 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手弓水一 (QNEM), four-corner 57013, composition ⿰扌丞)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 427, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11991
- Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1876, character 8
- Unihan data for U+62EF
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 蒸
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*kljɯŋ
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| 烝
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*kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs
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| 篜
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*klɯŋ
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| 脀
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*kljɯŋ
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| 拯
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*kljɯŋʔ
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| 氶
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*kljɯŋʔ
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| 承
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*ɡljɯŋ
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| 丞
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*ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs
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| 巹
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*klɯnʔ
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Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kljɯŋʔ) : semantic 手 + phonetic 丞 (OC *ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“upper part; to rise; to raise”). Related to 承 (OC *ɡljɯŋ, “to receive”), 烝 (OC *kljɯŋ, “to offer (gifts, sacrifices, etc.)”), 登 (OC *tɯːŋ, “to mount; to rise”), 升 (OC *hljɯŋ, “to rise”) (Schuessler, 2007; Sagart and Baxter, 2012).
Pronunciation
Note:
- chín - vernacular;
- chéng - literary.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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拯
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zhěng
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ tsyingX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*təŋʔ/
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| English
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lift up
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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拯
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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1410
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Phonetic
component
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丞
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Rime
group
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蒸
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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拯
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Old
Chinese
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/*kljɯŋʔ/
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| Notes
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原音蒸上聲無切語，
此切爲五音集韻補
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Definitions
拯
- to rescue; to save; to aid
- (literary) to lift; to raise
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
拯
(Hyōgai kanji)
- help
Readings
Korean
Hanja
拯 • (jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune–Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)
- help, save, aid
- lift, raise
Vietnamese
Han character
拯: Hán Nôm readings: chửng
拯: Nôm readings: chẳng[1], chăng[1], chuộng[1]
Adverb
- No, not, negative particle.[2][3]
See also
References