僧
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Translingual
Japanese | 僧 |
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Simplified | 僧 |
Traditional | 僧 |
Alternative forms
Note difference between Chinese form, which uses 曾, and Japanese shinjitai which uses 曽. Both forms are encoded under the same codepoint due to Han unification.
Han character
僧 (radical 9, 人+12 in Chinese, 人+11 in Japanese, 14 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人金田日 (OCWA), four-corner 28266, composition ⿰亻曾 (GTKV) or ⿰亻曽 (J))
References
- KangXi: page 117, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1076
- Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 222, character 1
- Unihan data for U+50E7
Chinese
simp. and trad. |
僧 |
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Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 僧 | ||||
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) | |||
Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts | |||
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References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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Characters in the same phonetic series (曾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
潧 | *ʔsrɯn |
繒 | *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ |
增 | *ʔsɯːŋ, *ʔsɯːŋs |
憎 | *ʔsɯːŋ |
磳 | *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ |
曾 | *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ |
矰 | *ʔsɯːŋ |
罾 | *ʔsɯːŋ |
熷 | *ʔsɯːŋ |
竲 | *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ |
橧 | *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯŋ |
譄 | *ʔsɯːŋ |
蹭 | *sʰɯːŋs |
層 | *zɯːŋ |
贈 | *zɯːŋs |
僧 | *sɯːŋ |
鬙 | *sɯːŋ |
甑 | *ʔsɯŋs |
鄫 | *zɯŋ |
驓 | *zɯŋ |
嶒 | *zɯŋ |
噌 | *sʰɯːŋ |
鏳 | *zrɯːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sɯːŋ) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 曾 (OC *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ) – a kind of person (a Buddhist monk).
Etymology
Clipping of 僧伽 (MC səŋ ɡɨɑ, “sangha; community of monks, nuns, novices and laity”); see there for more.
Pronunciation
Compounds
Japanese
Compounds
- 仏法僧 (buppōsō)
- 僧伽 (sōgya)
- 僧位 (sōi)
- 僧侶 (sōryo)
- 僧兵 (sōhei)
- 僧号 (sōgō)
- 僧坊, 僧房 (sōbō)
- 僧堂 (sōdō)
- 僧家 (sōka)
- 僧寺 (sōji)
- 僧尼 (sōni)
- 僧帽弁 (sōbōben)
- 僧庵 (sōan)
- 僧形 (sōgyō)
- 僧正 (sōjō)
- 僧綱 (sōgō)
- 僧衣 (sōi)
- 僧都 (sōzu)
- 僧門 (sōmon)
- 僧院 (sōin)
- 僧俗 (sōzoku)
- 僧服 (sōfuku)
- 僧籍 (sōseki)
- 僧職 (sōshoku)
- 売僧 (maisu)
- 学僧 (gakusō)
- 小僧 (kozō)
- 尼僧 (nisō)
- 禅僧 (zensō)
- 高僧 (kōsō)