程

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程 U+7A0B, 程
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A0B
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Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes

Han character

程 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹木口竹土 (HDRHG) or 竹木口一土 (HDRMG), four-corner 26914, composition ⿰禾呈)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 854, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25081
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1278, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2607, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7A0B

Chinese

trad. 程
simp. # 程
alternative forms 呈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (呈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
挰 *rleːŋ
鋥 *rleːŋs
逞 *l̥ʰeŋʔ
裎 *l̥ʰeŋʔ, *rleŋ
悜 *l̥ʰeŋʔ
睈 *l̥ʰeŋʔ
呈 *rleŋ, *l'eŋs
程 *rleŋ
酲 *rleŋ
珵 *rleŋ
徎 *rleŋʔ, *l̥ʰeːŋʔ
郢 *leŋʔ
浧 *leŋʔ
桯 *l̥ʰeːŋ, *ɦleːŋ
鞓 *l̥ʰeːŋ
壬 *l̥ʰeːŋʔ, *njɯm
鐵 *l̥ʰiːɡ
驖 *l̥ʰiːɡ, *l'iːɡ
戜 *l'iːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rleŋ) : semantic 禾 (“grain”) + phonetic 呈 (OC *rleŋ, *l'eŋs) – measurements.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tiàng - vernacular;
  • tìng - literary.
Note:
  • thiâⁿ/thêⁿ - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • thêng/têng - literary.
Rime
Character 程
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直貞切
Baxter drjeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɖiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɖiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȡiæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɖiajŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ȡiɛŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ȡĭɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȡʱi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chéng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cing4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 程 程
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chéng chéng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ drjeng › ‹ drjeng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(C.)lreŋ/ /*l<r>eŋ/
English Chéng (a surname) rule, norm

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 程
Reading # 1/1
No. 1435
Phonetic
component 		呈
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		呈
Old
Chinese 		/*rleŋ/

Definitions

程

  1. † weights and measures; measurements of all kinds
  2. † rules; regulations
  3. † model; law; standard
  4. † limit; limitation; quota; norm
  5. † period of time; time
  6. schedule; agenda; order
  7. stage of a journey
  8. journey; trip; distance travelled
  9. procedure; process; course
  10. † to measure; to weigh; to judge
  11. a surname
    程頤／程颐  ―  Chéng Yí  ―  Cheng Yi (Song dynasty philosopher)

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 程
Kyūjitai
[1]
程󠄁
程+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
程󠄃
程+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

程

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. extent
  2. degree
  3. law
  4. formula
  5. distance
  6. limits
  7. amount

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
程
ほど
Grade: 5
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 程 – see the following entry.
【ほど】
"as much as"; upper limit; degree
degree, bounds, extent
(This term, 程, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ “程”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

程: Hán Nôm readings: trình

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