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U+52E2, 勢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52E2

[U+52E1]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+52E3]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 19, +11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土戈大尸 (GIKS), four-corner 45427, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𫸾, 𫉥

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 149, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2422
  • Dae Jaweon: page 336, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 377, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+52E2
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Chinese

More information trad., simp. ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 勢, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hŋjeds): phonetic (OC *ŋeds) + semantic (power).

Etymology

Nominalisation of (OC *ŋ̊et, “to set up”), i.e. “that which is set up” (Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014). Compare the following quote from Han Feizi:

[Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
[Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
From: Han Feizi, circa 2nd century BCE
Wú suǒ wéi yán shì zhě, yán rén zhī suǒ shè yě. [Pinyin]
The setup (*ŋ̊et-s) of which I am speaking refers to what is set up (*ŋ̊et) by men.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • se4 - literary;
  • si4 - vernacular.

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More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. power; force; momentum; influence; authority
  2. outward appearance of something
  3. posture; position; pose; bearing
  4. situation; circumstances; conditions
  5. tendency; trend
  6. male genitals
       shì   to castrate
  7. (set theory, of a set) cardinality
  8. (physics, mathematics) potential
  9. (Eastern Min, Southern Min) Suffix for locality noun.
  10. (Cantonese) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    [Cantonese]   sai3 gu2 m4 dou3 [Jyutping]   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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