# 嶸

| 嶸 | U+5DB8, &#23992; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DB8 |
| ← 嶷 [U+5DB7] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嶹 → [U+5DB9] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嶸 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 山火火木 (UFFD), four-corner 2979$_4$, composition ⿰山榮)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 321, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8548
* Dae Jaweon: page 621, character 21
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 803, character 10
* Unihan data for U+5DB8

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鶯 | *qreːŋ |
| 罃 | *qreːŋ |
| 嫈 | *qreːŋ, *qreːŋs, *qʷeŋ |
| 褮 | *qreːŋ, *qʷeŋ, *ɢʷeːŋ |
| 覮 | *pqʰʷeːŋ |
| 謍 | *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʷreːŋ, *ɢʷeŋ |
| 䁝 | *qʷraːŋʔ |
| 嶸 | *ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ |
| 嵤 | *ɢʷreːŋ |
| 榮 | *ɢʷreŋ |
| 瑩 | *ɢʷreŋ, *qʷeːŋs |
| 蠑 | *ɢʷreŋ |
| 禜 | *ɢʷreŋ, *ɢʷreŋs |
| 醟 | *ɢʷreŋs, *qʰʷeŋs |
| 檾 | *kʰʷeŋʔ, *kʰʷeːŋʔ |
| 煢 | *ɡʷeŋ |
| 焭 | *ɡʷeŋ |
| 縈 | *qʷeŋ |
| 營 | *ɢʷeŋ |
| 鎣 | *ɢʷeŋ, *qʷeːŋs |
| 塋 | *ɢʷeŋ |
| 濴 | *ɢʷeŋ |
| 熒 | *ɡʷeːŋ |
| 螢 | *ɡʷeːŋ |
| 滎 | *ɡʷeːŋ |
| 濙 | *qʷeːŋʔ |
| 瀅 | *qʷeːŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷreːŋ, *ɢʷreŋ) : semantic 山 + phonetic 榮 (OC *ɢʷreŋ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): róng, hóng (rong$^2$, hong$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄥˊ, ㄏㄨㄥˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wing$^4$ / wang$^4$ / jing$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): êng
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: róng
*** Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄥˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: róng
*** Wade–Giles: jung$^2$
*** Yale: rúng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rong
*** Palladius: жун (žun)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʐʊŋ³⁵/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hóng
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hóng
*** Wade–Giles: hung$^2$
*** Yale: húng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: horng
*** Palladius: хун (xun)
*** Sinological IPA : /xʊŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wing$^4$ / wang$^4$ / jing$^4$
*** Yale: wìhng / wàhng / yìhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wing$^4$ / wang$^4$ / jing$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wing$^4$ / weng$^4$ / ying$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɪŋ²¹/, /wɐŋ²¹/, /jɪŋ²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: êng
*** Tâi-lô: îng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: eeng
*** IPA (Xiamen): /iɪŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /iɪŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /iɪŋ²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ²³/
* Middle Chinese: hjwaeng, hweang
Rime :
| Character | 嶸 | 嶸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 云 (35) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 庚 (112) | 耕 (118) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | II |
| Fanqie | 永兵切 | 戸萌切 |
| Baxter | hjwaeng | hweang |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɦˠwiæŋ/ | /ɦˠwɛŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɦʷᵚiaŋ/ | /ɦʷᵚæŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɣiuaŋ/ | /ɣuɐŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɦwiajŋ/ | /ɦwəɨjŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /ɣiuɐŋ/ | /ɣuɛŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /ɣĭwɐŋ/ | /ɣwæŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯wɐŋ/ | /ɣwæŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yóng | hóng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wing$^4$ | wang$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷreŋ/, /*[ɢ]ʷˤreŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷreːŋ/, /*ɢʷreŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 嶸 | 嶸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | róng | róng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ hjwæng › | ‹ hwɛng › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ɢ]ʷreŋ/ | /*[ɢ]ʷˁreŋ/ |
| English | high, distant | 崢嶸 high, precipitous |
| 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 | 嶸 | 嶸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 15362 | 15367 |
| Phonetic component | 熒 | 熒 |
| Rime group | 耕 | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 宏 | 榮 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɢʷreːŋ/ | /*ɢʷreŋ/ |

### Definitions

嶸
* Used in 崢嶸／峥嵘 (zhēngróng).
* towering and lofty

### Compounds

* 崢嶸／峥嵘 (zhēngróng)
* 崢嶸歲月／峥嵘岁月 (zhēngróngsuìyuè)
* 嶸嶸／嵘嵘
* 歲月崢嶸／岁月峥嵘
* 頭角崢嶸／头角峥嵘 (tóujiǎozhēngróng)

### References

* “嶸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): こう (kō)、おう (ō)、えい (ei)、よう (yō)
* Kun: けわしい (kewashī)

## Korean
### Hanja

嶸 (eum 영 (yeong))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

嶸: Hán Nôm readings: vanh
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#### References

* Nom Foundation