醒

醒 U+9192, 醒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9192
← 醑
[U+9191]
CJK Unified Ideographs 醓 →
[U+9193]

Translingual

Stroke order
16 strokes

Han character

醒 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一田日竹一 (MWAHM), four-corner 16614, composition ⿰酉星)

Derived characters

  • 𫬞

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1285, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39936
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1785, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3590, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9192

Chinese

trad. 醒
simp. # 醒

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs) : semantic 酉 (“alcohol”) + phonetic 星 (OC *sleːŋ).

Etymology

Cognate with 清 (OC *sʰleŋ, “clear”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • seng2 - vernacular (“to awaken”);
  • sing2 - literary (including “clever”);
  • sing1 - literary, used only in poetry.

Rime
Character 醒 醒 醒
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 心 (16) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 青 (125) 青 (125) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) IV IV IV
Fanqie 桑經切 蘇挺切 蘇佞切
Baxter seng sengX sengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/seŋ/ /seŋX/ /seŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/seŋ/ /seŋX/ /seŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɛŋ/ /sɛŋX/ /sɛŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛjŋ/ /sɛjŋX/ /sɛjŋH/
Li
Rong
/seŋ/ /seŋX/ /seŋH/
Wang
Li
/sieŋ/ /sieŋX/ /sieŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sieŋ/ /sieŋX/ /sieŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xīng xǐng xìng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sing1 sing2 sing3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 醒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xǐng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sengX ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-tsʰˁeŋʔ/
English wake up

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 醒 醒 醒
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 11377 11380 11382
Phonetic
component
生 生 生
Rime
group
耕 耕 耕
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
星 醒 腥
Old
Chinese
/*seːŋ/ /*seːŋʔ/ /*seːŋs/

Definitions

醒

  1. to sober up
  2. to awaken; to wake up
  3. to be awake
  4. to realize; to become aware of
  5. to decant (wine, etc.)
  6. (Cantonese) clever; intelligent; sharp
  7. (Cantonese) to gift
    私人醒 [Cantonese]  ―  si1 jan4 seng2 [Jyutping]  ―  to gift someone personally

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (醒):
  • → Vietnamese: tỉnh (醒)

References

Japanese

Kanji

醒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to wake up
  2. to become sober, to be disillusioned

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

醒 (eumhun 깰 성 (kkael seong))

  1. Hanja form? of 성 (“waking up; being sober”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

醒: Hán Nôm readings: tỉnh

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