青史

Chinese

		green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)	history
simp. and trad. (青史)		青	史

Etymology

青 (green) + 史 (history)

In ancient times, bamboo strips were sewn together to form books. The books were used to record events. Each strip would contain a single column of characters. The "green" in the word refers to the fact that the bamboo strips are green before they are cured and sewn into books. Later on, this word simply came to refer generically to history books.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qīngshǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥㄕˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cing¹ si²
Min Nan (POJ): chheng-sír / chheng-sú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: qīngshǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥㄕˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chingshyy
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cing¹ si²
  - Yale: chīng sí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsing¹ si²
  - Guangdong Romanization: qing¹ xi²
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ siː³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheng-sír
  - Tâi-lô: tshing-sír
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ³³ sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chheng-sú
  - Tâi-lô: tshing-sú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhengsuo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ su⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² su⁵³/

Noun

青史

annals of history; history books
(archaic) bamboo books which were used to record historical events

An example of a bamboo book

Derived terms

青史傳名／青史传名 (qīngshǐchuánmíng)

References

Bamboo#Bamboo_slip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Luo, Guanzhong (14th century) Annotated Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 9, page 116, note 3 (in Mandarin), published 1994, →ISBN

Japanese

Kanji in this term
青	史
せい Grade: 1	し Grade: 4
on’yomi

Noun

青史 (hiragana せいし, rōmaji seishi)

a history book

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