U+6027, 性
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6027

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

Translingual

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Stroke order
 

Han character

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

Derived characters

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References

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  • 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

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simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • sáng - vernacular;
  • séng - literary.
Note:
  • sa4/saⁿ4 - vernacular;
  • sing4 - literary.
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/
Bernhard
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

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

Compounds

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Descendants

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

Others:

  • Tangut: 𗵤 (*sjij¹)

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

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

Readings

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Compounds

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Etymology 1

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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

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Noun

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(しょう) (shōしやう (syau)?

  1. the nature of something

Etymology 2

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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

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Noun

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(せい) (sei

  1. sex, gender
  2. (grammar) gender
Synonyms
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Suffix

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(せい) (-sei

  1. -ity, -ness, the nature of quality or something
See also
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Etymology 3

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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

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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(さが) (saga

  1. one's nature
  2. characteristic
Synonyms
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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: 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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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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

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: tính, dính, tánh

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