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<WL>青 [qīng] 青色 green/blue, grue (玄青 black); 青天 blue sky; 青蛙 frog; 青年 youth; (radical 174, 青部)@@; (HDZ:) … [jīng] 青青=菁菁 | <WL>青 [qīng] 青色 green/blue, grue (玄青 black); 青天 blue sky; 青蛙 frog; 青年 youth; (radical 174, 青部)@@; (HDZ:) … [jīng] 青青=菁菁 | ||
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| − | The Shuōwén Seal form of 青(𤯞𤯝靑) qīng | + | The character 青 (8 strokes) is an old abbrev., also sometimes wr. 靑 (8 strokes), with 円 instead of 月; formerly wr. 𤯝/𤯞 (9 strokes), with 生 (龶) above, and 丹 (not 月) below. |
| + | The Shuōwén Seal form of 青(𤯞𤯝靑) qīng ‘grue/green’ (color of the east/springtime) is said to combine 生(𤯓) shēng ‘fresh/alive/green’ (phonosemantic), and 丹(𠂁) dān ‘cinnabar/red’ (as in 丹青 dānqīng ‘color/pigment’); formerly wr. 𡷉(), with 屮() chè ‘(green) sprout’ over the old form 丹/𠁿() dān ‘cinnabar/red’ (color); in the old form 𡷉(), the component 屮() is as in 艸() cǎo ‘grass’, top of 生() shēng ‘fresh/alive/green’, 木() mù ‘tree’, and 朱() zhū ‘red’. | ||
Note: The color term 青 ranges from ‘green/blue (grue)’ to ‘dark grue (black)’; in the modern form 青, the upper component 生 is wr. 龶, and the lower component 丹 looks like 月; cf. 靑/𤯞/𤯝. | Note: The color term 青 ranges from ‘green/blue (grue)’ to ‘dark grue (black)’; in the modern form 青, the upper component 生 is wr. 龶, and the lower component 丹 looks like 月; cf. 靑/𤯞/𤯝. | ||
| − | + | Compare: 绀/紺() gàn ‘red/blue (lustrous) silk taffeta (deep grue silk with an orange/red sheen/finish)’, in which 甘(𤮺) gān, not 𠁿(𠂁丹) dān. | |
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Compare: 赤(𤆍) chì ‘red’ (color of the south); 白() bái ‘white’ (color of the west); 黑(𪐗) hēi ‘black’ (color of the north); 黄(黃) huáng ‘yellow’ (color of the earth). | Compare: 赤(𤆍) chì ‘red’ (color of the south); 白() bái ‘white’ (color of the west); 黑(𪐗) hēi ‘black’ (color of the north); 黄(黃) huáng ‘yellow’ (color of the earth). | ||
| + | “[青] The 丹 color of 生 vegetation, 生 in the same time phonetic” —Karlgren(AD). (Karlgren regarded this explanation as “far-fetched”.) | ||
| + | “[青] The 丹 hue of 生 growing plants. ... But 丹 means RED! Was the inventor of 青 a Daltonian?” —Wieger. [ Daltonism ‘red/green color blindness’. ] | ||
青 is Kāngxī radical 174, classifying very few common characters: 静/靜, 靖, 靓/靚, … | 青 is Kāngxī radical 174, classifying very few common characters: 静/靜, 靖, 靓/靚, … | ||
HDZ: 青 : qīng : 春季植物叶子的绿色; 深绿色; 蓝色; 青色物 (丹青, 踏青, 青黄不接); 黑色; 年轻 (青年, 青工); 清静; 东方; 春; (古州名); (简称) 青海省; (姓) • jīng : 青青=菁菁: 茂盛貌 | HDZ: 青 : qīng : 春季植物叶子的绿色; 深绿色; 蓝色; 青色物 (丹青, 踏青, 青黄不接); 黑色; 年轻 (青年, 青工); 清静; 东方; 春; (古州名); (简称) 青海省; (姓) • jīng : 青青=菁菁: 茂盛貌 | ||
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