繒

See also: 缯

繒 U+7E52, 繒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E52 ← 繑 [U+7E51] CJK Unified Ideographs 繓 → [U+7E53]

Translingual

Han character

繒 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女火金田日 (VFCWA), four-corner 2896₆, composition ⿰糹曾)

Derived characters

• 𡾽, 𡿘

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 938, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27888
• Dae Jaweon: page 1377, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3454, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7E52

Chinese

trad.		繒
simp.		缯
alternative forms		𥃙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 繒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
潧	*ʔsrɯn
繒	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
增	*ʔsɯːŋ, *ʔsɯːŋs
憎	*ʔsɯːŋ
磳	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
曾	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ
矰	*ʔsɯːŋ
罾	*ʔsɯːŋ
熷	*ʔsɯːŋ
竲	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
橧	*ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ
譄	*ʔsɯːŋ
蹭	*sʰɯːŋs
層	*zɯːŋ
贈	*zɯːŋs
僧	*sɯːŋ
鬙	*sɯːŋ
甑	*ʔsɯŋs
鄫	*zɯŋ
驓	*zɯŋ
嶒	*zɯŋ
噌	*sʰɯːŋ
鏳	*zrɯːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zēng (zeng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zeng
    • Wade–Giles: tsêng¹
    • Yale: dzēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzeng
    • Palladius: цзэн (czɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zang¹
    • Yale: jāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzing

Rime
Character	繒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	疾陵切
Baxter	dzing
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zɨŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zɨŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zieŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ziŋ/
Li Rong	/d͡ziəŋ/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭəŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯əŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qíng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cing4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz]əŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯːŋ/, /*zɯŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	繒
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zēng
Middle Chinese	‹ dzing ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]əŋ/
English	silk
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	繒	繒
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16612	16631
Phonetic component	曾	曾
Rime group	蒸	蒸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		繒
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯːŋ/	/*zɯŋ/

Definitions

繒

1. silk fabrics; silk products

   • 又東有白蠻，丈夫婦人以白繒為衣，下不過膝。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     又东有白蛮，丈夫妇人以白缯为衣，下不过膝。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 4, part 20

     Yòu dōng yǒu Báimán, zhàngfū fùrén yǐ bái zēng wéi yī, xià bù guò xī. [Pinyin]

     Further to the east are the White Barbarians, whose men and women use white silk for clothing, which does not descend beneath the knee.

2. Alternative form of 鄫 (Zēng, “Zeng, an ancient state”)
3. a surname

Japanese

Kanji

繒

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)、ぞう (zō)、そう (sō)
• Kun: きぬ (kinu)

Korean

Hanja

繒 (eum 증 (jeung))

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Vietnamese

Han character

繒: Hán Nôm readings: tăng

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References

• Nom Foundation