嵩

See also: 崧 and 崇

嵩 U+5D69, 嵩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5D69 ← 嵨 [U+5D68] CJK Unified Ideographs 嵪 → [U+5D6A]

Translingual

Han character

嵩 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 山卜口月 (UYRB), four-corner 2222₇, composition ⿱山高)

Derived characters

• 𡀢, 𢣆, 𥖱, 𫶜

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 317, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8348
• Dae Jaweon: page 617, character 42
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 791, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5D69

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嵩
alternative forms		㟣 崧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嵩
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 山 (“mountain”) + 高 (“tall”).

Etymology

Reasoning that 嵩 and 崧 (sōng) are the same word and the latter's phonetic 松 (OC *sɢloŋ) suggests the medial *-l-, Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs Old Chinese pronunciation *suŋ < *sluŋ, proposes that it was from Austroasiatic and compares it to Proto-Mon-Khmer *sluŋ ~ *sluuŋ (“high”). However, note Baxter & Sagart (2014)'s reconstructions 嵩 ~ 崧 (OC *[s]uŋ), & 松 (OC *sə.ɢoŋ) without medial *-l-.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sōng (song¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: song
    • Wade–Giles: sung¹
    • Yale: sūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: song
    • Palladius: сун (sun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sung¹
    • Yale: sūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sjuwng

Rime
Character	嵩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息弓切
Baxter	sjuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/siuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/siuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/suwŋ/
Li Rong	/siuŋ/
Wang Li	/sĭuŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]uŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*suŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嵩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sōng
Middle Chinese	‹ sjuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]uŋ/
English	high
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	嵩
Reading #	1/1
No.	12058
Phonetic component	嵩
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	嵩
Old Chinese	/*suŋ/

Definitions

嵩

1. (literary, of a mountain) high; lofty

   • 嵩高惟岳，峻極于天。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     嵩高惟岳，峻极于天。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Sōnggāo wéi yuè, jùnjí yú tiān. [Pinyin]

     High and tall are the mountains, with their large masses reaching to the heavens.

2. a surname

Compounds

• 嚴嵩 / 严嵩
• 嵩厚
• 嵩呼
• 嵩垛
• 嵩壽 / 嵩寿 (sōngshòu)
• 嵩少
• 嵩山 (Sōng Shān)
• 嵩山三闕 / 嵩山三阙
• 嵩峻
• 嵩嶽降神 / 嵩岳降神
• 嵩祝
• 嵩箕
• 打嚴嵩 / 打严嵩