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騰

騰

See also: 腾

Translingual

Han character

騰 (radical 187 馬+10, 20 strokes, cangjie input 月火手火 (BFQF), four-corner 79227, composition ⿰月駦)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1442, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44915
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1967, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2125, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9A30

Chinese

trad. 騰
simp. 腾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 騰
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (朕) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
黱 *l'ɯːs
朕 *l'ɯmʔ
鰧 *l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ
螣 *l'ɯmʔ, *l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːɡ
栚 *l'ɯmʔ
眹 *l'ɯnʔ
騰 *l'ɯːŋ
滕 *l'ɯːŋ
縢 *l'ɯːŋ
儯 *l'ɯːŋ
幐 *l'ɯːŋ, *l'ɯːŋs
藤 *l'ɯːŋ
謄 *l'ɯːŋ
膡 *l'ɯːŋ, *hljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
籐 *l'ɯːŋ
勝 *hljɯŋ, *hljɯŋs
蕂 *hljɯŋs
榺 *hljɯŋs
塍 *ɦljɯŋ
媵 *ljɯŋs, *lɯŋs
賸 *ɦljɯŋs, *lɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'ɯːŋ) : phonetic 朕 ‎(OC *l'ɯmʔ) + semantic 馬 ‎(“horse”) – a horses’ gallop, prance.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 騰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 登 (129)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒登切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dəŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dəŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dəŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəŋ/
Li
Rong		 /dəŋ/
Wang
Li		 /dəŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱəŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 téng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 騰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 téng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dong ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lˤəŋ/
English to mount; oppress

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 騰
Reading # 1/1
No. 17115
Phonetic
component		 朕
Rime
group		 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 騰
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ɯːŋ/

Definitions

騰

  1. fly
  2. gallop
  3. run
  4. prance
  5. rise

Japanese

Kanji

騰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

騰 • ‎(deung) (hangeul 등, revised deung, McCune-Reischauer tŭng, Yale tung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

騰 (đằng)

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