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蒸

蒸

Translingual

Han character

蒸 (radical 140 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓水火 (TNEF), four-corner 44331, composition ⿱艹烝)

References

  • KangXi: page 1050, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31618
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1511, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3273, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+84B8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蒸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蒸 *kljɯŋ
烝 *kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs
篜 *klɯŋ
脀 *kljɯŋ
拯 *kljɯŋʔ
氶 *kljɯŋʔ
承 *ɡljɯŋ
丞 *ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs
巹 *klɯnʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蒸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 蒸 (133)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 煑仍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕɨŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕieŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciŋ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiəŋ/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯əŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蒸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhēng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsying ›
Old
Chinese		 /*təŋ/
English twigs as firewood

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 蒸
Reading # 1/1
No. 1406
Phonetic
component		 丞
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 蒸
Old
Chinese		 /*kljɯŋ/

Definitions

蒸

  1. to evaporate
  2. (cooking) to steam
    蒸餃／蒸饺 (zhēngjiǎo)
  3. a torch made of hemp stalks or bamboo and wood in ancient times
    蒸燭／蒸烛
  4. small pieces of firewood

Compounds

See also

References

Japanese

Kanji

蒸

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Derived terms

  • 蒸 (む)す ‎(musu)

Korean

Hanja

蒸 • ‎(jeung) (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune-Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蒸 (chưng, chừng)

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