Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 爽

Modern (Beijing) reading: shuǎng

Preclassic Old Chinese: sraŋʔ

Classic Old Chinese: sráŋ

Western Han Chinese: ṣáŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: ṣáŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ṣáŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṣáŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ṣáŋ

Middle Chinese: ṣáŋ

English meaning : be bright, dawn; active, clever

Comments: Used also for a homonymous *sraŋʔ 'be faulty, deviant'. Standard Sino-Viet. is sa`ng. Etymology of *sraŋʔ 'bright' see under 亮.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0733 a-b

Go-on: siyau

Kan-on: sau

Japanese reading: sō;shō;sawayaka;akiraka;tagau

Vietnamese reading: sáng

Shijing occurrences: 58.4_

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ʒ(r)ăŋH

Meaning: clever, learned

Chinese: 爽 *sraŋʔ clever, active.

Tibetan: ãʒaŋ(s), mʒaŋs wise, learned.

Burmese: saŋ to teach, acquire knowledge or skill, LB *saŋ / *caŋ(ʔ).

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1225

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 爽

MC description : 宕開三上養生

ZIHUI: 3642 2382

Beijing: ṣuaŋ 2

Jinan: ṣuaŋ 2

Xi'an: faŋ 2

Taiyuan: sa_̃ 2; sua_̃ 2

Hankou: suaŋ 2

Chengdu: suaŋ 2

Yangzhou: suâŋ 2

Suzhou: sa_ŋ 2

Wenzhou: śyɔ 21

Changsha: śyan 2

Shuangfeng: saŋ 2

Nanchang: sɔŋ 2

Meixian: sɔŋ 2

Guangzhou: šɔŋ 21

Xiamen: sɔŋ 2

Chaozhou: suaŋ 21

Fuzhou: souŋ 2

Shanghai: sa_̃ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: šuaŋ 2

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