Stroke order

Stroke order (Japan)

The character present in theKangxi dictionary is淸 (U+6DF8), which is also theform used in Korea.

清 (Kangxi radical 85,水+8, 11 strokes,cangjie input水手一月 (EQMB),four-corner3512₇,composition⿰氵青(GHTJV))

• 蔳,𢴆,𤂅,𪸃,𬈚,𬈴,𤄯,𠑴

• Kangxi Dictionary:not present, would followpage 633, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17695
• Dae Jaweon: page 1038, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1637, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6E05

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 清(Gan)
• 清(Min Nan)
• 清(Wu)
• 清(Cantonese)
• 清(Chinese)
• 清姓(Chinese)
• Chheng (sèⁿ)(Min Nan)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*sʰleŋ): semantic 氵(“water”) + phonetic 青(OC*sʰleːŋ).

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*(t)s(j)aŋ(“clear; pure; clean”); cognate withTibetanགཙང(gtsang,“clean; pure”), Mizothiang(“to be clear; to be clean; to be pure”),Southern Qiangɕó,Drungcangma(“clean”),Burmeseစင်(cang,“clean, pure”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Within Chinese, cognate with淨 (OC*zeŋs, “clean”),醒 (OC*seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs, “to wake up; to become sober”), and allofamic with星 (OC*sleːŋ, “star”),晴 (OC*zleŋ, “(of weather) clear; fine”); possibly also related to靜 (OC*zleŋʔ, “quiet”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Perhaps anareal word; compareProto-Mon-Khmer*caŋ(“to glitter”) (Schuessler, 2007).

清

1. clear;limpid
2. clean;unstained
3. pure;unmixed
4. distinct;clear;apparent
5. fair andhonest;upright
6. quiet;still
7. (phonetics)unaspirated
8. toclear (throat, etc.); toclean
9. tosettle; tosort out
10. (～朝) theQing (Ching) dynasty (Manchu) (1644-1911)
11. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Gan, Xiang, Eastern Min, Shaojiang Min, of liquids)dilute,thin
12. (Teochew)only;merely
13. asurname
14. excretion (清膿血 = excretion of pus and blood)
15. undigested (下利清穀 = diarrhea containing undigested food)

• (the Qing dynasty):

• (dilute, thin):

• (only):

• → English:Ching,Cing,Qing

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02224

Rebracketing of the reading ofChing, which is a nonstandard romanisation of師兄 /师兄(si¹ hing¹).

清

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internetslang, leetspeak)synonym of師兄 /师兄(si¹ hing¹)

• “清”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “请”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page270.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji,kyūjitai form淸)

1. clear
2. clarity
3. refreshing
4. clean,pure
5. Qing dynasty

(Can weverify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on:しょう(shō,Jōyō^†)^{←しやう(syau,historical)}
• Kan-on:せい(sei,Jōyō)
• Tō-on:しん(shin)
• Kun:きよい(kiyoi,清い,Jōyō)、きよめる(kiyomeru,清める,Jōyō)、きよまる(kiyomaru,清まる,Jōyō)、きよらか(kiyoraka,清らか)、さやか(sayaka,清か)、すむ(sumu,清む)
• Nanori:あき(aki)、いさみ(isami)、きよ(kiyo)、きよし(kiyoshi)、さや(saya)、し(shi)、すが(suga)、すがし(sugashi)、すず(suzu)、すみ(sumi)、せ(se)