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聲
聲
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 声 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 声 |
| Traditional | 聲 |
Han character
聲 (radical 128 耳+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 土水尸十 (GESJ), four-corner 47401, composition ⿱殸耳)
References
- KangXi: page 969, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29166
- Dae Jaweon: page 1420, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2794, character 4
- Unihan data for U+8072
Chinese
| trad. | 聲 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 声 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (殸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 殸 | *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs |
| 聲 | *qʰjeŋ |
| 謦 | *kʰeːŋʔ, *kʰeːŋs |
| 磬 | *kʰeːŋs |
| 罄 | *kʰeːŋs |
| 馨 | *qʰeːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰjeŋ) : phonetic 殸 (OC *kʰreːŋ, *kʰeːŋs) + semantic 耳 (“ear”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): sing1, seng1
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sâng
- Min Dong (BUC): sĭng
- Min Nan (POJ): siaⁿ / seng
- Wu (Wiktionary): sen (T1); san (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ
- Wade-Giles: shêng1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheng
- IPA (key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sing1, seng1
- Yale: sīng, sēng
- Cantonese Pinyin: sing1, seng1
- IPA (key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵/, /sɛːŋ⁵⁵/
- Note: sing1 - literary; seng1 - vernacular.
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâng
- Hakka Romanization System: sang´
- Hagfa Pinyim: sang1
- IPA: /saŋ²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: sĭng
- IPA (key): /siŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siaⁿ / seng
- Tâi-lô: siann / sing
- Phofsit Daibuun: sviaf, sefng
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiã⁴⁴/, /ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiã³³/, /ɕiɪŋ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiã⁴⁴/, /ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕiã⁴⁴/, /ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiã⁴⁴/, /ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
- Note: siaⁿ - vernacular, seng - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: sen (T1); san (T1)
- IPA (key): /səɲ⁵³/, /sã⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 聲 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 書 (26) |
| Final (韻) | 清 (121) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 書盈切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɕiᴇŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɕiɛŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɕiæŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɕiajŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɕiɛŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɕĭɛŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɕi̯ɛŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
shēng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 聲 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
shēng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ syeng › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[l̥]eŋ/ |
| English | sound (n.) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 聲 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10514 |
| Phonetic component |
殸 |
| Rime group |
耕 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
聲 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qʰjeŋ/ |
Definitions
聲
- sound; noise; voice (Classifier: 把 c)
- 我聽到尖叫聲。 / 我听到尖叫声。 ― Wǒ tīngdào jiānjiào shēng. ― I heard someone scream.
- 鈴聲將我喚醒。 / 铃声将我唤醒。 ― Língshēng jiāng wǒ huànxǐng. ― I was roused by the sound of a bell.
- 我聽列車聲逐漸遠去。 [MSC, trad.]
- 我听列车声逐渐远去。 [MSC, simp.]
- Wǒ tīng lièchē shēng zhújiàn yuǎn qù. [Pinyin]
- I heard the sound of the train dying away.
- 槍炮聲使群眾驚慌失措。 [MSC, trad.]
- 枪炮声使群众惊慌失措。 [MSC, simp.]
- Qiāngpào shēng shǐ qúnzhòng jīnghuāngshīcuò. [Pinyin]
- The crowd panicked at the sound of the guns.
- reputation
- news; messages
- tone
- † to declare; to state
- Classifier for sounds.
Compounds
Derived terms from 聲
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