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靜
靜
See also: 静
Translingual
Han character
靜 (radical 174 靑+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手月月尸木 (QBBSD), four-corner 52257, composition ⿰青爭)
References
- KangXi: page 1382, character 3
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42578
 - Dae Jaweon: page 1893, character 13
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 6, page 4049, character 1
 - Unihan data for U+975C
 
Chinese
| trad. | 靜 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 静 | |
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 | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zleŋʔ) : semantic 青 + phonetic 爭.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
 - Cantonese (Jyutping): zing6
 - Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhin
 - Min Dong (BUC): sâng / cêng
 - Min Nan (POJ): chēng / chīⁿ
 - Wu (Wiktionary): xxin (T3)
 
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˋ
 - Wade-Giles: ching4
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinq
 - IPA (key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zing6
 - Yale: jihng
 - Cantonese Pinyin: dzing6
 - IPA (key): /t͡sɪŋ²²/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Hakka
-  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhin
 - Hakka Romanization System: qin
 - Hagfa Pinyim: qin4
 - IPA: /t͡ɕʰin⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
 -  Min Dong
-  (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: sâng / cêng
 - IPA (key): /sɑŋ²⁴²/, /t͡sɛiŋ²⁴²/
 - Note: sâng - vernacular (“to stop making noise; to stop crying”); cêng - literary.
 
 
 -  (Fuzhou)
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chēng / chīⁿ
 - Tâi-lô: tsīng / tsīnn
 - Phofsit Daibuun: zeng, cvi
 - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɪŋ²²/, /t͡ɕĩ²²/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴¹/, /t͡ɕĩ⁴¹/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ²²/, /t͡ɕĩ²²/
 - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɪŋ³³/, /t͡ɕĩ³³/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɪŋ³³/, /t͡ɕĩ³³/
 
 
 -  (Hokkien)
 -  Wu
-  (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: xxin (T3)
 - IPA (key): /ʑ̻ɪɲ²³/
 
 
 -  (Shanghainese)
 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 靜 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 從 (15) | 
| Final (韻) | 清 (121) | 
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 疾郢切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/d͡ziᴇŋX/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/d͡ziɛŋX/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/d͡ziæŋX/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/d͡ziajŋX/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/d͡ziɛŋX/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/d͡zĭɛŋX/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/d͡zʱi̯ɛŋX/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
jìng | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 靜 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 11353 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
生 | 
| Rime group  | 
耕 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
0 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
靜 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*zleŋʔ/ | 
Adjective
靜
Compounds
Derived terms from 靜
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Japanese
Kanji
靜
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
靜 • (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)
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Vietnamese
Han character
靜 (tĩnh)
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