Radical
Strokes
10
Residual strokes
5
Mandarin
chēng chèn chèng
Teochew

Glyph

Radical
Residual strokes
5 strokes
Strokes
10 strokes
Mandarin
chēng / chèn / chèng

Definitions by reading

cêng1
Mandarin equivalent chēng
Regional readings
19th-century Fucheng cêng1 Chenghai cêng1 Jieyang cêng1 Raoping cêng1 Shantou cêng1
①量轻重:~量(liáng )。
②叫,叫做:自~ | ~呼 | ~帝 | ~臣 | ~兄道弟。
③名号:名~ | 简~ | ~号 | ~谓 | 职~。
④说:声~ | ~快 | ~病 | ~便。
⑤赞扬:~道 | ~许 | ~颂 | ~赞。
⑥举:~兵 | ~觞祝寿。
⑦计轻重:称称斤两
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cêng3
Mandarin equivalent chèn
Regional readings
19th-century Fucheng cêng3 Chenghai cêng3 Jieyang cêng3 Raoping cêng3 Shantou cêng3
①适合:~心 | ~职 | 相~ | 匀~。
②相等或相当:对~。
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cing3
Mandarin equivalent chèng
Regional readings
19th-century Fucheng cind3 Chenghai cing3 Jieyang cêng3 Raoping cing3 Shantou cing3
同“秤”。现在通常写作“秤”。
☞[cing3] 揭阳语读 [cêng3]。
☞潮语中,戥(dêng2)也有表示称重的意思。
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English meaning

call; name, brand; address; say

GuangyunPhonological reconstruction

1
昌母 三等 開口 蒸韵 平声 處陵切
Reconstruction:
Original

知輕重也。說文曰:銓也。又姓,漢功臣表有新山侯稱忠。處陵切,又昌證切三。

2
昌母 三等 開口 蒸韵 去声 昌孕切
Reconstruction:
Original

愜意,又是也,等也,銓也,度也,俗作秤,云正斤兩也,昌孕切,又昌陵切二。