腥

腥 U+8165, 腥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8165
← 腤
[U+8164]
CJK Unified Ideographs 腦 →
[U+8166]

Translingual

Han character

腥 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月日竹一 (BAHM), four-corner 76214, composition ⿰月星)

  1. raw meat, including the odor thereof
  2. rank, strong-smelling

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 988, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1440, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2095, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+8165

Chinese

trad. 腥
simp. # 腥

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *seːŋ, *seːŋs) : semantic 肉 (“meat; flesh”) + phonetic 星 (OC *sleːŋ)

Pronunciation


Note:
  • seng - literary;
  • chhiⁿ/chheⁿ - vernacular.
    Note:
    • cên1 - vernacular;
    • sêng1 - literary.
      • Wu
        • (Shanghai):
          • Wugniu: 1shin
          • MiniDict: shin平
          • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 1xin
          • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin⁵³/

Rime
Character 腥 腥
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 青 (125) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 桑經切 蘇佞切
Baxter seng sengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/seŋ/ /seŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/seŋ/ /seŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɛŋ/ /sɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛjŋ/ /sɛjŋH/
Li
Rong
/seŋ/ /seŋH/
Wang
Li
/sieŋ/ /sieŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sieŋ/ /sieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xīng xìng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sing1 sing3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 腥 腥
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11375 11381
Phonetic
component
生 生
Rime
group
耕 耕
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
星 腥
Old
Chinese
/*seːŋ/ /*seːŋs/

Definitions

腥

  1. fishy smell
  2. having a fishy smell
  3. meat; fish
  4. (archaic) raw meat; uncooked meat

Synonyms

  • (raw meat): 生肉 (shēngròu)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Alternative forms

  • 生臭 (most common), 鮏 (rare)

Kanji

腥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. smelly, as of raw fish or meat

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
腥
なまぐさ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Root stem of adjective 生臭い, 腥い (namagusai, “smelling of fish, meat, or blood; stinky, bad-smelling”),[1][2] itself a compound of 生 (nama, “raw, uncooked”) +‎ 臭 (kusa, “stink, bad smell”, root stem of 臭い kusai, “stinky, bad-smelling”). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) なまぐさ [nàmágúsá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [na̠ma̠ɡɯ̟ᵝsa̠]

Noun

腥(なまぐさ) • (namagusa) 

  1. a smell of fish, meat, or blood
  2. a stink, a bad smell

References

  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

腥 • (seong) (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune–Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腥: Hán Nôm readings: tinh, tanh

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