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嵩

Sōng

Meanings

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Sōng
  1. 1.Mt Song in Henan
sōng
  1. 1.(literary) (of mountains) lofty

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.high; lofty
  2. 2.a surname

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 山 (“mountain”) + 高 (“tall”). Reasoning that 嵩 and 崧 (sōng) are the same word and the latter's phonetic 松 (OC *sɢloŋ) suggests the medial *-l-, Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs Old Chinese pronunciation *suŋ < *sluŋ, proposes that it was from Austroasiatic and compares it to Proto-Mon-Khmer *sluŋ ~ *sluuŋ (“high”). However, note Baxter & Sagart (2014)'s reconstructions 嵩 ~ 崧 (OC *[s]uŋ), & 松 (OC *sə.ɢoŋ) without medial *-l-.

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Stroke order

Components

嵩山高

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Derived terms

嵩厚嵩呼嵩垛嵩壽嵩寿嵩少嵩山嵩山三闕嵩山三阙嵩峻嵩嶽降神嵩岳降神嵩祝嵩箕打嚴嵩打严嵩

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Related words

嵩明 see 嵩明县[Sōng míng Xiàn]嵩县 Song County or Songxian, a county in Luoyang City 洛阳市[Luò yáng Shì], Henan嵩山 Mt Song in Henan, central mountain of the Five Sacred Mountains 五岳[Wǔ yuè]郭嵩焘 Guo Songtao (1818–1891), Chinese statesman and diplomat, served as minister to Britain and minister to France 1877–1879皇甫嵩 Huangfu Song (-195), later Han general and warlord嵩明县 Songming, a county in Kunming City 昆明市[Kūn míng Shì], Yunnan