霜

霜 U+971C, 霜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-971C
← 霛
[U+971B]
CJK Unified Ideographs 霝 →
[U+971D]

Translingual

Han character

霜 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一月木月山 (MBDBU), four-corner 10963, composition ⿱雨相)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1376, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42363
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1885, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4070, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+971C

Chinese

trad. 霜
simp. # 霜
2nd round simp. ⿱⿻丅⿱冖⿰丶丶双

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *sraŋ) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 相 (OC *slaŋ, *slaŋs).

Etymology

From 涼 (OC *ɡ·raŋ) with an s- (nominalizer) prefix (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • sng - colloquial;
  • song - literary.

Rime
Character 霜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 生 (21)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 色莊切
Baxter srjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʃiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/ʃĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
song1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 霜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shuāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ srjang ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]raŋ/
English hoar-frost

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 霜
Reading # 1/1
No. 13587
Phonetic
component
相
Rime
group
陽
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
霜
Old
Chinese
/*sraŋ/

Definitions

霜

  1. frost
  2. frost-like powder
  3. (medicine) cream
    防曬霜/防晒霜  ―  fángshàishuāng  ―  sunscreen
  4. (literary, figurative) white
  5. (Southern Min) ice

Synonyms

  • (ice):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (霜):
  • → Vietnamese: sương (霜)

References

Japanese

Kanji

霜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. frost
  2. years
  3. white as snow, cold as ice, harsh as snow

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
霜
しも
Grade: S
kun’yomi

⟨simo₁⟩ → /simo/ → /ɕimo/

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Harima Fudoki of 715 CE,[1] in turn from Proto-Japonic *simo.

Thought to be cognate with or derived from 下 (⟨simo1⟩ → shimo, “bottom, lower part”).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) しも​ [shìmóꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɕimo̞]

Noun

霜(しも) • (shimo) 

  1. frost (ice crystals in objects exposed to the air)
    Synonym: フロスト (furosuto)
  2. (by extension) ice adhered inside an electric refrigerator
  3. (figurative) white hair

Derived terms

Idioms

  • 霜(しも)を置(お)く (shimo o oku)

Proverbs

  • 霜(しも)を履(ふ)んで堅氷(けんぴょう)至(いた)る (shimo o funde kenpyō itaru)

Proper noun

霜(しも) • (Shimo) 

  1. a surname

References

  1. “霜”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 霜 (MC srjang). Recorded as Middle Korean 사ᇰ (sang) (Yale: sang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 霜 (eumhun 서리 상 (seori sang))

  1. Hanja form? of 상 (“frost”).

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

霜: Hán Nôm readings: sương

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