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政

政

Translingual

Han character

政 (radical 66 攴+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一一人大 (MMOK), four-corner 18140, composition ⿰正攵)

References

  • KangXi: page 469, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13135
  • Dae Jaweon: page 819, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1453, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+653F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 政

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (正) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
綻 *rdeːns
淀 *deːns
靛 *deːns
症 *tjɯŋs
竀 *rtʰeːŋ, *tʰeŋ
征 *tjeŋ
怔 *tjeŋ
正 *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs
鉦 *tjeŋ
鴊 *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs
眐 *tjeŋ
佂 *tjeŋ
整 *tjeŋʔ
政 *tjeŋs
証 *tjeŋs
定 *teːŋs, *deːŋs
顁 *teːŋs
錠 *teːŋs, *deːŋʔ, *deːŋs
掟 *deːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjeŋs) : phonetic 正 ‎(OC *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs) + semantic 攵 ‎(“action”).

Etymology

From 正 (OC *tjeŋ, *tjeŋs, “straight, upright; right, correct; proper”), i.e. “that which is right”.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 政
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂəŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂəŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂəŋ⁵³/
/t͡səŋ⁵³/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²¹/
Qingdao /tʃəŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂəŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂəŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂəŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂə̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sən³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sən¹³/
Guiyang /t͡sen²¹³/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂə̃¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂən⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂən⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡səŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂəŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sə̃ŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡səŋ³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sən⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sen⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡seŋ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiʌ̃³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂən⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sɨn⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sən⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʃen⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡seŋ³³/
Nanning /t͡seŋ³³/
Hong Kong /t͡siŋ³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡siŋ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sɛiŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡seiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡seŋ²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡seŋ³⁵/
Rime
Character 政
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之盛切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiæŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciajŋH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiɛŋH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭɛŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ɛŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhèng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 政
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhèng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyengH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*teŋ-s/
English government

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 政
Reading # 1/1
No. 17177
Phonetic
component		 正
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 政
Old
Chinese		 /*tjeŋs/

Definitions

政

  1. government; political power
    政府  ―  zhèngfǔ  ―  government
  2. regulation; rule; decree
  3. politics; political affairs
    政治  ―  zhèngzhì  ―  politics
  4. administrative affairs of governmental departments, families or organisations
  5. † to govern; to rule
  6. † to correct; to comment on (a manuscript)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

政

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

政 ‎(hiragana まつりごと, romaji matsurigoto, alternative reading せい, romaji sei)

  1. rule; government

Korean

Hanja

政 • ‎(jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune-Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

政 (chính, chiếng, chánh)

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