# 嵊

| 嵊 | U+5D4A, &#23882; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5D4A |
| ← 嵉 [U+5D49] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嵋 → [U+5D4B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嵊 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 山竹木心 (UHDP), four-corner 2279$_1$, composition ⿰山乘)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 317, character 52
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8320
* Dae Jaweon: page 617, character 23
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 790, character 17
* Unihan data for U+5D4A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 乘 | *ɦljɯŋ, *ɦljɯŋs |
| 溗 | *ɦljɯŋ |
| 塖 | *ɦljɯŋ |
| 騬 | *ɦljɯŋ |
| 椉 | *ɦljɯŋ |
| 剩 | *ɦljɯŋs |
| 嵊 | *ɦljɯŋs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦljɯŋs): semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 乘 (OC *ɦljɯŋ, *ɦljɯŋs).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shèng (sheng$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sing$^6$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sēng
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$zen
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shèng
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shèng
*** Wade–Giles: shêng$^4$
*** Yale: shèng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenq
*** Palladius: шэн (šɛn)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sing$^6$
*** Yale: sihng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sing$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: xing$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɪŋ²²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sing$^5$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sīng
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiŋ²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sēng
*** Tâi-lô: sīng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: seng
*** IPA (Xiamen): /siɪŋ²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /siɪŋ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /siɪŋ³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$zen
*** MiniDict: zen$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$zen
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zən²³/
* Middle Chinese: zyingH
Rime :
| Character | 嵊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 船 (27) |
| Final (韻) | 蒸 (133) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 實證切 |
| Baxter | zyingH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʑɨŋ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʑɨŋ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʑieŋ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʑiŋ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /d͡ʑiəŋ$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /d͡ʑĭəŋ$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /d͡ʑʰi̯əŋ$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shèng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sing$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljɯŋs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 嵊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1459 |
| Phonetic component | 乘 |
| Rime group | 蒸 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 乗 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɦljɯŋs/ |

### Definitions

嵊
* Only used in 嵊州 (Shèngzhōu).

### References

* “嵊”, 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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “嵊”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 209.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): しょう (shō)、じょう (jō)