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省

省

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

省 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火竹月山 (FHBU), four-corner 90602, composition ⿱少目)

References

  • KangXi: page 802, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23179
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2473, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7701

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 省

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (省) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
省 *sreŋʔ, *sleŋʔ
渻 *saːl, *sreŋʔ, *seŋʔ
箵 *sleːŋʔ

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 省
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 所景切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʃˠiæŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʃᵚiaŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʃiaŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʂiajŋX/
Li
Rong		 /ʃiɐŋX/
Wang
Li		 /ʃĭɐŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʂi̯ɐŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shěng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 省
Reading # 1/2
No. 11384
Phonetic
component		 省
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 省
Old
Chinese		 /*sreŋʔ/
Notes 甲金文生省聲

Definitions

省

  1. to omit; to leave out
  2. to save, to economize
  3. province

Compounds

See also

  • 縣／县 (xiàn, “Japanese prefecture”)
  • 州 (zhōu, “state”)

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 省
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 息井切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /siɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /siæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /siajŋX/
Li
Rong		 /siɛŋX/
Wang
Li		 /sĭɛŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯ɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 省
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sjengX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]eŋʔ/
English inspect

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 省
Reading # 2/2
No. 11386
Phonetic
component		 省
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 省
Old
Chinese		 /*sleŋʔ/

Definitions

省

  1. to examine; to inspect
  2. to greet; to visit
  3. to understand; to comprehend

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

省

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Prefix

省 ‎(hiragana しょう, romaji shō-)

  1. saving, conservation

Suffix

省 ‎(hiragana しょう, romaji -shō)

  1. ministry

Korean

Hanja

省 • ‎(seong, saeng) (hangeul 성, 생, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, saeng, Yale seng, sayng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

省 (tỉnh, xển, xỉnh, xĩnh, tểnh, tễnh)

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