嵊

嵊 U+5D4A, 嵊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5D4A ← 嵉 [U+5D49] CJK Unified Ideographs 嵋 → [U+5D4B]

Translingual

Han character

嵊 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 山竹木心 (UHDP), four-corner 2279₁, composition ⿰山乘)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 317, character 52
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8320
• Dae Jaweon: page 617, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 790, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5D4A

Chinese

trad.		嵊
simp. #		嵊
alternative forms		𡹴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (乘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
乘	*ɦljɯŋ, *ɦljɯŋs
溗	*ɦljɯŋ
塖	*ɦljɯŋ
騬	*ɦljɯŋ
椉	*ɦljɯŋ
剩	*ɦljɯŋs
嵊	*ɦljɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦljɯŋs): semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 乘 (OC *ɦljɯŋ, *ɦljɯŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shèng (sheng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sēng
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zen

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shèng
    • Wade–Giles: shêng⁴
    • Yale: shèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenq
    • Palladius: шэн (šɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sing⁶
    • Yale: sihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sing⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sīng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sēng
    • Tâi-lô: sīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: seng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zen
    • MiniDict: zen^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zen
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zən²³/

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• Middle Chinese: zyingH

Rime
Character	嵊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	船 (27)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	實證切
Baxter	zyingH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʑɨŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʑɨŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʑieŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʑiŋH/
Li Rong	/d͡ʑiəŋH/
Wang Li	/d͡ʑĭəŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯əŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shèng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljɯŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嵊
Reading #	1/1
No.	1459
Phonetic component	乘
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	乗
Old Chinese	/*ɦljɯŋs/

Definitions

嵊

1. Only used in 嵊州 (Shèngzhōu).

References

• “嵊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “嵊”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 209.

Japanese

Kanji

嵊

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)、じょう (jō)