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靜

See also: 静
靜 U+975C, 靜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-975C
← 靛
[U+975B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 靝 →
[U+975D]

Translingual

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Traditional 靜
Simplified 静
Japanese 静
Korean 靜

Han character

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靜 (Kangxi radical 174, 靑+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手月月尸木 (QBBSD), four-corner 52257, composition ⿰青爭(T) or ⿰靑爭(JK))

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1382, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42578
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1893, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 4049, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+975C

Chinese

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trad. 靜/静
simp. 静
2nd round simp. 𰁓

Glyph origin

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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 *zleŋʔ) : semantic 青 + phonetic 爭 (OC *ʔsreːŋ).

Etymology

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Perhaps from Mon-Khmer; compare Old Khmer siṅ (“to stay in/at; to abide; to be still”) (Schuessler, 2007). 靖 (OC *zleŋʔ) is the same word (ibid.).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • sâng - vernacular (“to stop making noise; to stop crying”);
  • cêng - literary.
Note:
  • sa5/saⁿ5 - vernacular;
  • zing5 - literary.
Note:
  • chěng/chēng - literary;
  • chǐⁿ/chīⁿ/chēⁿ - vernacular.
Rime
Character 靜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 疾郢切
Baxter dzjengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ziᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡ziɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ziæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡ziajŋX/
Li
Rong 		/d͡ziɛŋX/
Wang
Li 		/d͡zĭɛŋX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/d͡zʱi̯ɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jìng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zing6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 靜
Reading # 1/1
No. 11353
Phonetic
component 		生
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		靜
Old
Chinese 		/*zleŋʔ/

Definitions

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靜

  1. silent; not making a noise
    夜深人靜／夜深人静  ―  yèshēnrénjìng  ―  quiet in the dead of night
    請大家靜一靜！／请大家静一静！  ―  Qǐng dàjiā jìng yī jìng!  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    佢今日咁靜嘅？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    佢今日咁静嘅？ [Cantonese, simp.]
    keoi5 gam1 jat6 gam3 zing6 ge2? [Jyutping]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    靜少少吖唔該。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    静少少吖唔该。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    zing6 siu2 siu2 aa1 m4 goi1. [Jyutping]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. still; motionless
    靜止／静止  ―  jìngzhǐ  ―  to be still
    心靜自然涼／心静自然凉  ―  xīn jìng zìrán liáng  ―  inner calm naturally [helps one] cool down (a phrase used during periods of hot weather)
  3. to calm down

Synonyms

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Dialectal synonyms of 安靜 (“quiet; silent”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 安靜
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 安靜, 壓靜
Taiwan 安靜
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 安靜
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 安靜
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 雅靜, 安靜
Wuhan 靜, 靜辦, 雅靜
Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 靜, 靜辦
Hefei 安靜, 靜
Cantonese Guangzhou 靜
Hong Kong 靜
Yangjiang 靜
Gan Nanchang 安靜
Hakka Meixian 靜
Jin Taiyuan 安靜, 致靜
Northern Min Jian'ou 靜
Eastern Min Fuzhou 靜
Southern Min Xiamen 靜
Chaozhou 靜
Jieyang 靜
Wu Suzhou 靜, 安靜
Wenzhou 靜, 愔靜
Xiang Changsha 安靜
Shuangfeng 安靜

Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai

静

Kyūjitai

靜

Kanji

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靜

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 静)

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Readings

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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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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɘ(ː)ŋ]
  • Phonetic hangul: [정(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

靜 • (jeong) (hangeul 정, revised jeong, McCune–Reischauer chŏng, Yale ceng)

  1. hanja form? of 정 (“quiet, silence, static”)
    정전기(靜電氣) ― static electricity
    정(靜)하중 ― jeonghajung ― dead weight

Vietnamese

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Han character

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靜: Hán Nôm readings: tĩnh

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