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U+52E2, 勢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52E2

[U+52E1]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+52E3]
See also:

Translingual

Han character

(radical 19 +11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土戈大尸 (GIKS), four-corner 45427, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 149, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2422
  • Dae Jaweon: page 336, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 377, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+52E2

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ŋr'eːds, *ŋeds
*hŋjeds
*ŋeds
*ŋeds
*ŋeds
*ŋeds
*ŋeds
*ŋʷjed
*sŋed
*sŋed
*ŋjed
*ŋeːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hŋjeds) : phonetic  (OC *ŋeds) + semantic  (power).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (26)
Final () (35)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕiajH/
Li
Rong
/ɕiɛiH/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì
Middle
Chinese
‹ syejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ŋ̊et-s/
English circumstances, setting

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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. 15089
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hŋjeds/

Definitions

  1. power; force
  2. tendency

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. forces
  2. energy
  3. military strength

Readings

Compounds

  • 市勢 (しせい) (shisei)
  • 水勢 (すいせい) (suisei)
  • 手勢 (てぜい) (tezei)
  • 中勢 (ちゅうせい) (chūsei)
  • 病勢 (びょうせい) (byōsei)
  • 落勢 (らくせい) (rakusei)
  • 騰勢 (とうせい) (tōsei)
  • 勢力伯仲 (せいりょくはくちゅう) (seiryokuhakuchū)
  • 党勢 (とうせい) (tōsei)
  • 猖獗 (しょうけつ) (shōketsu)
  • 破竹 (はちく) (いきお) (hachiku no ikioi)

Korean

Hanja

(se) (hangeul , revised se, McCune-Reischauer se)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thế, thể)

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