昇

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See also: 升
昇 U+6607, 昇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6607
← 昆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 昈 →

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character

昇 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日竹廿 (AHT), four-corner 60440, composition ⿱日升)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 491, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13794
  • Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1490, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6607

Chinese

trad. 昇
simp. 升/昇
alternative forms 曻
usage of 昇 in Simplified Chinese is limited to personal names.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (升) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
升 *hljɯŋ
昇 *hljɯŋ
陞 *hljɯŋ
抍 *hljɯŋ, *ʔljɯŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hljɯŋ) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 升 (OC *hljɯŋ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 昇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 識蒸切
Baxter sying
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɕɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɕɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɕieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɕiŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ɕiəŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ɕĭəŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ɕi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shēng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sing1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 昇
Reading # 1/1
No. 11301
Phonetic
component 		升
Rime
group 		蒸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		升
Old
Chinese 		/*hljɯŋ/

Definitions

昇

  1. (obsolete) rising of the sun
  2. Alternative form of 升 (shēng, “to rise; to ascend”)
  3. Alternative form of 升 (shēng, “to promote”)
  4. Used in 昇平／升平 (“peaceful”).
  5. a surname
  6. Used in personal names.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

昇

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to rise up

Readings

  • Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: のぼる (noboru, 昇る, Jōyō)

Compounds

Proper noun

昇(のぼる) • (Noboru) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

昇 • (seung) (hangeul 승, revised seung, McCune–Reischauer sŭng, Yale sung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昇: Hán Nôm readings: thăng

  1. to rise, ascending, or a person's first name "Thăng"
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