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U+6027, 性
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6027

[U+6026]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6028]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 61, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心竹手一 (PHQM), four-corner 95010, composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 381, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10478
  • Dae Jaweon: page 710, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2286, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6027

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *sleŋs): semantic (heart) + phonetic (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs) – nature, personal quality, hence of the heart.

Etymology[edit]

Derived from (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs, “to live; to be born; innate”).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • sáng - colloquial;
  • séng - literary.
  • Southern Min
  • Note:
    • sèng - literary;
    • sìⁿ/sèⁿ - vernacular (limited, e.g. 性命).
    Note: sin3 - limited, used in 慣性.

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (16)
    Final () (121)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () III
    Fanqie
    Baxter sjengH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /siᴇŋH/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /siɛŋH/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /siæŋH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /siajŋH/
    Li
    Rong
    /siɛŋH/
    Wang
    Li
    /sĭɛŋH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren
    /si̯ɛŋH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    xìng
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    sing3
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    xìng
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ sjengH ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*seŋ-s/
    English nature

    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
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 11358
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*sleŋs/

    Definitions[edit]

    1. nature; character; personality
    2. sex; gender
    3. (grammar) gender
    4. sexual intercourse
    5. -ness; -ity (suffix forming nouns and adjectives, denoting qualities)

    Compounds[edit]

    Descendants[edit]

    Sino-Xenic ():
    • Japanese: (せい) (sei); (しょう) (shō)
    • Korean: 성(性) (seong)
    • Vietnamese: tính ()

    Others:

    • Tangut: 𗵤 (*sjij¹)

    References[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. one's nature
    2. characteristic
    3. sex, gender
    4. content

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Etymology 1[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    しょう
    Grade: 5
    goon

    From Middle Chinese (MC sjengH, “nature of something, inherent quality”).

    The goon, so the initial borrowing.

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (しょう) (shōしやう (syau)?

    1. the nature of something

    Etymology 2[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    せい
    Grade: 5
    kan’on

    From Middle Chinese (MC sjengH, “nature of something, inherent quality”).

    The kan'on, so a later borrowing.

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (せい) (sei

    1. sex, gender
    2. (grammar) gender
    Synonyms[edit]

    Suffix[edit]

    (せい) (-sei

    1. -ity, -ness, the nature of quality or something
    See also[edit]

    Etymology 3[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    さが
    Grade: 5
    kun’yomi

    Probably from Old Japanese, although the ultimate derivation is unknown. Appears in The Tale of Genji and The Tales of Ise of the Heian period.[3]

    Alternative forms[edit]

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    (さが) (saga

    1. one's nature
    2. characteristic
    Synonyms[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006) 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
    2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998) NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
    3. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

    Korean[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    (eumhun 성품 (seongpum seong))

    1. Hanja form? of (nature; character; sex).
    2. Hanja form? of (-ness; -ity (suffix forming nouns and adjectives, denoting qualities)).

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    : Hán Nôm readings: tính, dính, tánh

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