腥
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Translingual
Han character
腥 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月日竹一 (BAHM), four-corner 76214, composition ⿰⺼星)
- raw meat, including the odor thereof
- 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 | |
| alternative forms | 胜 | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (生) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 猜 | *sʰlɯː |
| 輤 | *sʰleːns |
| 綪 | *sʰleːns, *ʔsreːŋ |
| 倩 | *sʰleːns, *sʰleŋs |
| 棈 | *sʰleːns |
| 蒨 | *sʰeːns |
| 篟 | *sʰeːns |
| 生 | *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs |
| 牲 | *sreŋ |
| 笙 | *sreŋ |
| 甥 | *sreŋ |
| 鉎 | *sreŋ, *sleːŋ |
| 珄 | *sreŋ |
| 鼪 | *sreŋ, *sreŋs |
| 猩 | *sreŋ, *seːŋ |
| 狌 | *sreŋ |
| 眚 | *sreŋʔ |
| 貹 | *sreŋs |
| 崝 | *zreːŋ |
| 精 | *ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs |
| 菁 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 鶄 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
| 蜻 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
| 鼱 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 婧 | *ʔsleŋ, *zleŋs, *zleŋʔ |
| 睛 | *ʔsleŋ, *sʰleŋʔ |
| 箐 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 聙 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 旌 | *ʔsleŋ |
| 清 | *sʰleŋ |
| 圊 | *sʰleŋ |
| 請 | *sʰleŋʔ, *zleŋs, *zleŋ |
| 凊 | *sʰleŋs |
| 䝼 | *zleŋs, *zleŋ |
| 靚 | *zleŋs |
| 情 | *zleŋ |
| 晴 | *zleŋ |
| 夝 | *zleŋ |
| 靜 | *zleŋʔ |
| 靖 | *zleŋʔ |
| 睲 | *seŋʔ, *seːŋs |
| 惺 | *seŋʔ, *seːŋ |
| 性 | *sleŋs |
| 姓 | *sleŋs |
| 靗 | *l̥ʰeŋs |
| 鯖 | *ʔljeŋ, *sʰleːŋ |
| 青 | *sʰleːŋ |
| 靘 | *sʰleːŋ, *sʰleːŋs |
| 掅 | *sʰleːŋs |
| 胜 | *sleːŋ |
| 曐 | *sleːŋ |
| 星 | *sleːŋ |
| 鮏 | *sleːŋ |
| 腥 | *seːŋ, *seːŋs |
| 鯹 | *seːŋ |
| 醒 | *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs |
| 篂 | *seːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *seːŋ, *seːŋs): semantic 肉 (“meat; flesh”) + phonetic 星 (OC *sleːŋ)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): seng1 / sing1
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): sĭng
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1shin
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: xīng
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥ
- Tongyong Pinyin: sing
- Wade–Giles: hsing1
- Yale: syīng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shing
- Palladius: син (sin)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: seng1 / sing1
- Yale: sēng / sīng
- Cantonese Pinyin: seng1 / sing1
- Guangdong Romanization: séng1 / xing1
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɛːŋ⁵⁵/, /sɪŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siâng
- Hakka Romanization System: xiangˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: xiang1
- Sinological IPA: /si̯aŋ²⁴/
- (Meixian)
- Guangdong: xiang1
- Sinological IPA: /ɕiaŋ⁴⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng
- Tâi-lô: sing
- Phofsit Daibuun: sefng
- Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ⁴⁴/
- Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiⁿ
- Tâi-lô: tshinn
- Phofsit Daibuun: chvy
- Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰĩ³³/
- Sinological IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /t͡sʰĩ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheⁿ
- Tâi-lô: tshenn
- Phofsit Daibuun: zhvef
- Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰɛ̃⁴⁴/
- Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰẽ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
Note:
- seng - literary;
- chhiⁿ/chheⁿ - vernacular.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: cên1 / sêng1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsheⁿ / seng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰẽ³³/, /seŋ³³/
Note:
- cên1 - vernacular;
- sêng1 - literary.
- Middle Chinese: seng, sengH
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*seːŋ/, /*seːŋs/
Definitions
腥
Synonyms
- (having a fishy smell):
Dialectal synonyms of 腥 (“fishy; having a fishy smell”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 腥, 腥氣 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 腥 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 腥 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 腥氣 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 腥 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 腥 |
| Hong Kong | 腥 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 腥 |
| Pingxiang | 腥 | |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 臭臊 |
| Jieyang | 臊 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 臭腥, 腥 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 腥氣 |
| Shanghai (Chongming) | 腥氣 | |
| Danyang | 腥氣 | |
| Ningbo | 腥氣 | |
- (raw meat): 生肉 (shēngròu)
Compounds
References
- “腥”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.
Japanese
Kanji
腥
Readings
- Go-on: しょう (shō)←しやう (syau, historical)
- Kan-on: せい (sei)
- Kun: なまぐさ (namagusa, 腥)、なまぐさい (namagusai, 腥い)
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 腥 |
| なまぐさ Hyōgai |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 生臭 (most, common) 鮏 (rare) |
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
Noun
腥 • (namagusa)
Related terms
- 生臭い (namagusai)
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: 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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