誠

See also: 诚
誠 U+8AA0, 誠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AA0
← 誟
[U+8A9F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 誡 →
[U+8AA1]

Translingual

Han character

誠 (radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口戈竹尸 (YRIHS), four-corner 03650, composition ⿰言成)

References

  • KangXi: page 1163, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35497
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1628, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3963, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8AA0

Chinese

trad. 誠
simp. 诚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 誠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (成) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
成 *djeŋ
城 *djeŋ
誠 *djeŋ
宬 *djeŋ
郕 *djeŋ
筬 *djeŋ
盛 *djeŋ, *djeŋs
珹 *djeŋ
晟 *djeŋs
墭 *djeŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djeŋ) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 成 (OC *djeŋ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chiâⁿ - vernacular;
  • sêng - literary.
Rime
Character 誠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 是征切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑiajŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiɛŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chéng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 誠
Reading # 1/1
No. 1419
Phonetic
component		 成
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 成
Old
Chinese		 /*djeŋ/

Definitions

誠

  1. sincere, honest
  2. true, real
  3. (Min Nan) very

Compounds

Synonyms

  • (very):
Dialectal synonyms of 很 (“very; quite”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 甚
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 非常、很、十分、太
Mandarin Beijing 挺、很、倍兒
Taiwan 很、挺
Tianjin 挺、很
Jinan 挺、楞
Xi'an 很
Wuhan 蠻、很
Chengdu 很、好
Yangzhou 蠻、稀、很
Hefei 很
Cantonese Guangzhou 好
Hong Kong 好
Taishan 好
Yangjiang 好
Gan Nanchang 蠻
Hakka Meixian 好
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 當、已、還
Liudui (S. Sixian) 蓋、盡、還
Hsinchu (Hailu) 當、已、還
Dongshi (Dabu) 當、已、還
Zhuolan (Raoping) 當、已、還
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 足、真、實在
Jin Taiyuan 很、挺
Min Bei Jian'ou 真
Min Dong Fuzhou 野、真
Min Nan Xiamen 真、野、誠、有夠
Quanzhou 真、野、誠、有夠
Zhangzhou 盡、蓋、足、足範、有夠
Taipei 真、誠
Kaohsiung 有夠、足、真、誠、蓋
Tainan 有夠、足、真、誠、蓋
Taichung 誠、蓋、足
Hsinchu 真、誠
Lukang 真、誠
Sanxia 真、誠
Yilan 有夠、足、誠、盡
Kinmen 足、誠
Magong 真、誠
Penang 真、誠、真正
Chaozhou 過
Wu Shanghai 蠻、老
Suzhou 蠻
Wenzhou 蠻、蒙、顯
Xiang Changsha 很、蠻
Shuangfeng 蠻

References

Japanese

Kanji

誠

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
誠
まこと
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

誠 (hiragana まこと, rōmaji makoto)

  1. sincerity

Proper noun

誠 (hiragana まこと, rōmaji Makoto)

  1. A male given name

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

誠 • (seong) (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune–Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

誠 (thành, thiêng)

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