殺青

See also: 杀青

Chinese

		to kill; to murder; to slaughter	green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)
trad. (殺青)		殺	青
simp. (杀青)		杀	青

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāqīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄚ ㄑㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saat³ cing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāqīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄚ ㄑㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shacing
    • Wade–Giles: sha¹-chʻing¹
    • Yale: shā-chīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaching
    • Palladius: шацин (šacin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saat³ cing¹
    • Yale: saat chīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saat⁸ tsing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sad³ qing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːt̚³ t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sreat tsheng

Rime
Character	殺	青
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	鎋 (75)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	所八切	倉經切
Baxter	sreat	tsheng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠɛt̚/	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚæt̚/	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃæt̚/	/t͡sʰɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂəɨt̚/	/t͡sʰɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/ʃɛt̚/	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Wang Li	/ʃæt̚/	/t͡sʰieŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂat̚/	/t͡sʰieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sha	qīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saat3	cing1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s<r>at  [s.r̥]ˤeŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sreːd  sʰleːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	殺	青
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shā	qīng
Middle Chinese	‹ srɛt ›	‹ tsheng ›
Old Chinese	/*s<r>at/	/*[s.r̥]ˁeŋ/
English	kill	green or blue
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	殺	青
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	11010	11362
Phonetic component	杀	生
Rime group	月	耕
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	殺	靑
Old Chinese	/*sreːd/	/*sʰleːŋ/
Notes		說文從生丹，戴桐王筠皆雲從丹生聲

Verb

殺青

1. (historical) to dry green bamboo strips on fire before writing on them
2. (in tea manufacture) to heat green tea to prevent fermentation and preserve the green colour
3. (figurative) to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc)​, to finalise (a manuscript)