青
Meanings
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- 1.green
- 2.blue
- 3.black
- 4.youth
- 5.young (of people)
- 1.short name for Qinghai 青海[Qīng hǎi]
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Wiktionary
- 1.blue-green ("grue"); blue (of sky, stone etc.); green (of grass, plants, mountains etc.)
- 2.blue-green ("grue")-colored items
- 3.green grass
- 4.crops that have not yet ripened
- 5.black (of hair, cloth, silk thread etc.)
- 6.green
- 7.lime green
- 8.young; adolescent
- 9.east
- 10.spring
- 11.knife (Classifier: 把 c)
- 12.a surname
- 13.fresh
- 14.bright; pretty; neat
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Etymology
Zhang (2022): Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, *tsʰˤeŋ): phonetic 生 (*sreŋ) + phonetic 井 (*tseŋʔ). Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound of 生 (“growth of plants”) + 丹 (“cinnabar”). A variant inspired by this interpretation is 𤯞. The implication being that cinnabar, being used for dyeing, would imply “color” in general, giving the combined meaning “color of growing plants” → “blue-green”. In the modern glyph, the top component is reduced to 龶, and the bottom component resembles the unrelated 月 (yuè, “moon”). The second-round simplified form of the character is based on the calligraphic form of the character. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sreŋ (“to live; to be alive; to give birth; raw; green”). Cognate with 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs, “to live”), 蒼 (OC *sʰaːŋ, “green; blue”), 性 (OC *sleŋs, “nature”), 姓 (OC *sleŋs, “surname”). Note 蒼 (OC *sʰaːŋ) may be an old dialect variant of 青 (OC *sʰleːŋ) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Components
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