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澄

澄

See also: 澂

Translingual

Han character

澄 (radical 85 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水弓人廿 (ENOT), four-corner 32118)

  1. purify water by allowing sediment to settle
  2. clear, pure

References

  • KangXi: page 651, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18315
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1061, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1750, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6F84

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 澄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (登) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
登 *tɯːŋ
璒 *tɯːŋ
燈 *tɯːŋ
簦 *tɯːŋ
蹬 *tɯːŋ, *dɯːŋs
磴 *tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs, *tʰɯːŋ
鐙 *tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs
嶝 *tɯːŋs
隥 *tɯːŋs
橙 *tɯːŋs, *rdɯːŋ
凳 *tɯːŋs
墱 *tɯːŋs
鼟 *tʰɯːŋ
膯 *tʰɯːŋ
澄 *dɯːŋs, *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ
鄧 *dɯːŋs
僜 *dɯːŋs, *tʰɯŋ
覴 *tʰɯŋs
瞪 *dɯŋ, *dɯŋs, *rdɯːŋ
憕 *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ, *rdɯːŋ
撜 *tjɯŋʔ
證 *tjɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *dɯːŋs, *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ) : semantic 氵 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 登 ‎(OC *tɯːŋ) – clear water.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 澄 澄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 庚 (109) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II III
Fanqie 直庚切 直陵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖˠæŋ/ /ɖɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖᵚaŋ/ /ɖɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡaŋ/ /ȡieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖaɨjŋ/ /ɖiŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ȡɐŋ/ /ȡiəŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ȡɐŋ/ /ȡĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱɐŋ/ /ȡʱi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chéng chéng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 澄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chéng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dring ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]rəŋ/
English limpid, clear

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 澄 澄 澄
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 2186 2192 2198
Phonetic
component		 登 登 登
Rime
group		 蒸 蒸 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 澂 棖
Old
Chinese		 /*dɯːŋs/ /*dɯŋ/ /*rdɯŋ/
Notes 同澂

Definitions

澄

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Compounds

  • 佛圖澄／佛图澄
  • 吳澄／吴澄
  • 掏澄
  • 攬轡澄清／揽辔澄清
  • 泓澄
  • 淘澄
  • 淘澄飛跌／淘澄飞跌
  • 清澄
  • 澄心
  • 澄心堂紙／澄心堂纸
  • 澄思寂慮／澄思寂虑
  • 澄明
  • 澄泥硯／澄泥砚
  • 澄淨／澄净
  • 澄清 (chéngqīng)
  • 澄清天下
  • 澄清湖
  • 澄源正本
  • 澄澈
  • 澄澹精致
  • 澄瑩／澄莹
  • 澄空
  • 澄觀／澄观
  • 澄邁縣／澄迈县
  • 碧澄澄
  • 空水澄鮮／空水澄鲜
  • 端本澄源
  • 許景澄／许景澄
  • 黃澄澄／黄澄澄

References

Japanese

Kanji

澄

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

澄 • ‎(jing) (hangeul 징, revised jing, McCune-Reischauer ching, Yale cing)

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Vietnamese

Han character

澄 (trừng, chừng, xừng)

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