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U+6676, 晶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6676

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 72, +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日日日 (AAA), four-corner 60660, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 497, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14000
  • Dae Jaweon: page 863, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1518, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+6676

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alternative forms
𣇵
𦜳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : Triplication of (“sun”).

Etymology

Likely related to (OC *ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs, “something polished”).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • cheng - literary;
  • chiⁿ/cheⁿ - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tsjeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡siᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡siɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡siæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡siajŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡siɛŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭɛŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zing1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsjeng ›
Old
Chinese
/*tseŋ/
English bright, limpid

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 # 1/1
No. 6844
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsleŋ/

Definitions

  1. brilliant; glittering
  2. crystal; quartz
  3. sun

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. clear
  2. crystal
  3. diamond

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

(あきら) (Akira

  1. a unisex given name

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: tinh

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