shēng HSK3

rise

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
sun
SoundMeaning component
shēng ascend, rise

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhanghljɯŋ
Unicodeshiəng

說文解字

《說文新附》:“昇,日上也。从日,升聲。古只用升。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica