蜻

蜻	U+873B, 蜻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-873B

← 蜺
[U+873A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蜼 →
[U+873C]

Translingual

Han character

蜻 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈手一月 (LIQMB), four-corner 5512₇, composition ⿰虫青(GTH) or ⿰虫靑(JKV))

References

KangXi: page 1088, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33203

Dae Jaweon: page 1554, character 24

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2858, character 8

Unihan data for U+873B

Chinese

trad.		蜻
simp. ^#		蜻

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
猜	*sʰlɯː
輤	*sʰleːns
綪	sʰleːns, ʔsreːŋ
倩	sʰleːns, sʰleŋs
棈	*sʰleːns
蒨	*sʰeːns
篟	*sʰeːns
生	sʰleːŋ, sreŋs
牲	*sreŋ
笙	*sreŋ
甥	*sreŋ
鉎	sreŋ, sleːŋ
珄	*sreŋ
鼪	sreŋ, sreŋs
猩	sreŋ, seːŋ
狌	*sreŋ
眚	*sreŋʔ
貹	*sreŋs
崝	*zreːŋ
精	ʔsleŋ, ʔsleŋs
菁	*ʔsleŋ
鶄	ʔsleŋ, sʰleːŋ
蜻	ʔsleŋ, sʰleːŋ
鼱	*ʔsleŋ
婧	ʔsleŋ, zleŋs, *zleŋʔ
睛	ʔsleŋ, sʰleŋʔ
箐	*ʔsleŋ
聙	*ʔsleŋ
旌	*ʔsleŋ
清	*sʰleŋ
圊	*sʰleŋ
請	sʰleŋʔ, zleŋs, *zleŋ
凊	*sʰleŋs
䝼	zleŋs, zleŋ
靚	*zleŋs
情	*zleŋ
晴	*zleŋ
夝	*zleŋ
靜	*zleŋʔ
靖	*zleŋʔ
睲	seŋʔ, seːŋs
惺	seŋʔ, seːŋ
性	*sleŋs
姓	*sleŋs
靗	*l̥ʰeŋs
鯖	ʔljeŋ, sʰleːŋ
青	*sʰleːŋ
靘	sʰleːŋ, sʰleːŋs
掅	*sʰleːŋs
胜	*sleːŋ
曐	*sleːŋ
星	*sleːŋ
鮏	*sleːŋ
腥	seːŋ, seːŋs
鯹	*seːŋ
醒	seːŋ, seːŋʔ, *seːŋs
篂	*seːŋ

Etymology

Compare with Burmese ပုစဉ်း (pu.cany:, “dragonfly”).

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qīng (qing¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cing¹
Min Nan (POJ): chheng
Wu (Wiktionary): xin (T1); qin (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cing
  - Wade–Giles: chʻing¹
  - Yale: chīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ching
  - Palladius: цин (cin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cing¹
  - Yale: chīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsing¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qing¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheng
  - Tâi-lô: tshing
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhefng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: xin (T1); qin (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕɪɲ⁵³/, /t͡ɕʰɪɲ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰeŋ/

Rime
Character	蜻
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	倉經切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cing¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰleːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜻
Reading #	2/2
No.	11363
Phonetic component	生
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	靑
Old Chinese	/*sʰleːŋ/

Definitions

蜻

Only used in 蜻蜓 (qīngtíng) and 蜻蛉 (qīnglíng).

Compounds

玉蜻蜓
竹蜻蛉
竹蜻蜓

草蜻蛉
蜻蛉 (qīnglíng)
蜻蜓 (qīngtíng)

蜻蜓點水／蜻蜓点水
豎蜻蜓／竖蜻蜓

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jīng (jing¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jing
  - Wade–Giles: ching¹
  - Yale: jīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jing
  - Palladius: цзин (czin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /t͡siᴇŋ/

Rime
Character	蜻
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子盈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siᴇŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siɛŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siæŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡siajŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡siɛŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭɛŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ɛŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zing¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsleŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蜻
Reading #	1/2
No.	11330
Phonetic component	生
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	精
Old Chinese	/*ʔsleŋ/

Definitions

蜻

Only used in 蜻蛚 (jīngliè).

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jìng (jing⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jìng
  - Wade–Giles: ching⁴
  - Yale: jìng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinq
  - Palladius: цзин (czin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵¹/

Definitions

蜻

Only used in 蜻蜻 (jìngjìng).

Japanese

Kanji

蜻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
Kan-on: せい (sei)

Korean

Hanja

蜻 • (cheong) (hangeul 청, revised cheong, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏng, Yale cheng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蜻: Hán Nôm readings: thanh

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