僜

僜 U+50DC, 僜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50DC ← 僛 [U+50DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 僝 → [U+50DD]

Translingual

Han character

僜 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人弓人廿 (ONOT), composition ⿰亻登)

Derived characters

• 𪔶

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 116, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1102
• Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 223, character 2
• Unihan data for U+50DC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		僜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (登) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
登	*tɯːŋ
璒	*tɯːŋ
燈	*tɯːŋ
簦	*tɯːŋ
蹬	*tɯːŋ, *dɯːŋs
磴	*tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs, *tʰɯːŋ
鐙	*tɯːŋ, *tɯːŋs
嶝	*tɯːŋs
隥	*tɯːŋs
橙	*tɯːŋs, *rdɯːŋ
凳	*tɯːŋs
墱	*tɯːŋs
鼟	*tʰɯːŋ
膯	*tʰɯːŋ
澄	*dɯːŋs, *dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ
鄧	*dɯːŋs
僜	*dɯːŋs, *tʰɯŋ
覴	*tʰɯŋs
瞪	*dɯŋ, *dɯŋs, *rdɯːŋ
憕	*dɯŋ, *rdɯŋ, *rdɯːŋ
撜	*tjɯŋʔ
證	*tjɯŋs

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chēng (cheng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cheng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻêng¹
    • Yale: chēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cheng
    • Palladius: чэн (čɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: trhing

Rime
Character	僜
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	丑升切
Baxter	trhing
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰɨŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰɨŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰieŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰiŋ/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiəŋ/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭəŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶʰi̯əŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cing1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰɯŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僜
Reading #	2/2
No.	2190
Phonetic component	登
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	僜
Old Chinese	/*tʰɯŋ/

Definitions

僜

1. (literary, rare) to walk unsteadily; to stagger

Compounds

• 儚僜

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dèng (deng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄥˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dèng
    • Wade–Giles: têng⁴
    • Yale: dèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: denq
    • Palladius: дэн (dɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dongH

Rime
Character	僜
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒亘切
Baxter	dongH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dəŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/dəŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/dəŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəŋH/
Li Rong	/dəŋH/
Wang Li	/dəŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱəŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dèng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dang6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*dɯːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僜
Reading #	1/2
No.	2189
Phonetic component	登
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	鄧
Old Chinese	/*dɯːŋs/

Definitions

僜

1. only used in 倰僜

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dēng (deng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: deng
    • Wade–Giles: têng¹
    • Yale: dēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: deng
    • Palladius: дэн (dɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

僜

1. Deng people (an ethnic group inhabiting Chayu in the autonomous region of Tibet)

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 僜 – see 登 (“to go up; to climb; to mount; to rise; to publish; to run; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 登).

Japanese

Kanji

僜

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)、どう (dō)、しょう (shō)、ちょう (chō)
• Kun: あがる (agaru)