蹭

蹭	U+8E6D, 蹭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E6D

← 蹬
[U+8E6C]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蹮 →
[U+8E6E]

Translingual

Han character

蹭 (radical 157, 足+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 口一金田日 (RMCWA), four-corner 6816₆, composition ⿰𧾷曾)

to shuffle, procrastinate, dilly-dally

References

KangXi: page 1233, character 21

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37863

Dae Jaweon: page 1705, character 32

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3742, character 1

Unihan data for U+8E6D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蹭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蹭

Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)

Small seal script

**Small seal script**
s01576

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cèng (ceng⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄘㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cang³, sang³
Min Nan (POJ): chhǹg / chhèng / sngh

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: cèng
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄥˋ
  - Wade–Giles: ts'êng⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsenq
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɤŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cang³, sang³
  - Yale: chang, sang
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsang³, sang³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ceng³, seng³
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐŋ³³/, /sɐŋ³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhǹg
  - Tâi-lô: tshǹg
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhngx
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhèng
  - Tâi-lô: tshìng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhexng
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ²¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sngh
  - Tâi-lô: sngh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sngq
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /sŋ̍ʔ³²/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰəŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	蹭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	千鄧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰəŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰəŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰəŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰəŋ^H/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰəŋ^H/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰəŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰəŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cèng

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰɯːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蹭
Reading #	1/1
No.	16624
Phonetic component	曾
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蹭
Old Chinese	/*sʰɯːŋs/

Definitions

蹭

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Compounds

磨蹭 (mócèng)

Japanese

Kanji

蹭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): そう (sō), しょう (shō), じょう (jō)

Kun: よろめく (yoromeku)

Korean

Hanja

蹭 • (cheung) (hangeul 층, revised cheung, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŭng, Yale chung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蹭 (thặng, tắng)

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