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醒

醒

Translingual

Han character

醒 (radical 164 酉+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一田日竹一 (MWAHM), four-corner 16614)

  1. wake up
  2. sober up
  3. startle

References

  • KangXi: page 1285, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39936
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1785, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3590, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9192

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 醒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (生) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
猜 *sʰlɯː
輤 *sʰleːns
綪 *sʰleːns, *ʔsreːŋ
倩 *sʰleːns, *sʰleŋs
棈 *sʰleːns
蒨 *sʰeːns
篟 *sʰeːns
生 *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs
牲 *sreŋ
笙 *sreŋ
甥 *sreŋ
鉎 *sreŋ, *sleːŋ
珄 *sreŋ
鼪 *sreŋ, *sreŋs
猩 *sreŋ, *seːŋ
狌 *sreŋ
眚 *sreŋʔ
貹 *sreŋs
崝 *zreːŋ
精 *ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs
菁 *ʔsleŋ
鶄 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
蜻 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
鼱 *ʔsleŋ
婧 *ʔsleŋ, *zleŋs, *zleŋʔ
睛 *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleŋʔ
箐 *ʔsleŋ
聙 *ʔsleŋ
旌 *ʔsleŋ
清 *sʰleŋ
圊 *sʰleŋ
請 *sʰleŋʔ, *zleŋs, *zleŋ
凊 *sʰleŋs
䝼 *zleŋs, *zleŋ
靚 *zleŋs
情 *zleŋ
晴 *zleŋ
夝 *zleŋ
靜 *zleŋʔ
靖 *zleŋʔ
睲 *seŋʔ, *seːŋs
惺 *seŋʔ, *seːŋ
性 *sleŋs
姓 *sleŋs
靗 *l̥ʰeŋs
鯖 *ʔljeŋ, *sʰleːŋ
青 *sʰleːŋ
靘 *sʰleːŋ, *sʰleːŋs
掅 *sʰleːŋs
胜 *sleːŋ
曐 *sleːŋ
星 *sleːŋ
鮏 *sleːŋ
腥 *seːŋ, *seːŋs
鯹 *seːŋ
醒 *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs
篂 *seːŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 醒 醒 醒
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 心 (16) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 青 (125) 青 (125) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) IV IV IV
Fanqie 桑經切 蘇挺切 蘇佞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /seŋ/ /seŋX/ /seŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /seŋ/ /seŋX/ /seŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɛŋ/ /sɛŋX/ /sɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛjŋ/ /sɛjŋX/ /sɛjŋH/
Li
Rong		 /seŋ/ /seŋX/ /seŋH/
Wang
Li		 /sieŋ/ /sieŋX/ /sieŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sieŋ/ /sieŋX/ /sieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xīng xǐng xìng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 醒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sengX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-tsʰˤeŋʔ/
English wake up

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 醒 醒 醒
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 11377 11380 11382
Phonetic
component		 生 生 生
Rime
group		 耕 耕 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 星 醒 腥
Old
Chinese		 /*seːŋ/ /*seːŋʔ/ /*seːŋs/

Definitions

醒

  1. to awaken; to wake up
  2. to be awake
  3. to decant (wine, etc.)
  4. (Cantonese) clever; intelligent; sharp
    醒目 (xǐngmù)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 聰明 (“clever; intelligent; smart; bright”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 聰明、伶俐、聰敏、聰穎
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 聰明、機靈、伶俐、聰敏、聰穎
Mandarin Beijing 聰明
Taiwan 聰明
Jinan 聰明
Xi'an 靈、靈醒
Wuhan 聰明
Chengdu 精靈、聰明
Yangzhou 聰明
Hefei 聰明
Cantonese Guangzhou 聰明、醒、醒目、叻
Hong Kong 聰明、醒、醒目、叻
Yangjiang 伶俐、叻
Gan Nanchang 精靈、聰明
Hakka Meixian 聰明、機靈
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 聰明
Liudui (S. Sixian) 聰明
Hsinchu (Hailu) 聰明
Dongshi (Dabu) 聰明、精
Zhuolan (Raoping) 聰明、精
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 聰明
Jin Taiyuan 機靈、聰明
Min Bei Jian'ou 聰明
Min Dong Fuzhou 聰明
Min Nan Quanzhou 聰明
Xiamen 聰明
Zhangzhou 聰明
Taipei 聰明、巧、明白
Chaozhou 聰明
Wu Suzhou 聰明
Wenzhou 靈、聰明
Xiang Changsha 靈泛、聰明
Shuangfeng 聰明

Compounds

  • 不醒
  • 不醒人事
  • 久夢初醒／久梦初醒
  • 半睡半醒
  • 叫醒 (jiàoxǐng)
  • 叫醒服務／叫醒服务
  • 喚醒／唤醒 (huànxǐng)
  • 大夢初醒／大梦初醒
  • 大覺醒／大觉醒
  • 如夢初醒／如梦初醒
  • 如夢方醒／如梦方醒
  • 如醉初醒
  • 如醉方醒
  • 定醒
  • 醒悟 (xǐngwù)
  • 醒木
  • 醒狂
  • 醒目 (xǐngmù)
  • 醒眼 (xǐngyǎn)
  • 醒睡
  • 醒脾
  • 醒覺／醒觉
  • 醒豁
  • 醒酒
  • 醒酒石
  • 驚醒／惊醒
  • 點醒／点醒

Japanese

Kanji

醒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to wake up
  2. to become sober, to be disillusioned

Readings

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

醒 (tỉnh)

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