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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)@@ [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)@@ [jīng] 青青=菁菁 | ||
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| − | The Shuōwén Seal form of 青(𤯞𤯝靑) qīng ‘green’ (color of the east and of springtime) is said to combine 生(𤯓) shēng ‘fresh/alive/green’, and 丹 dān ‘cinnabar/red’ (as in 丹青 dānqīng ‘color/pigment’); the old variant 𡷉() seems to have the old form of 丹/𠁿() below, | + | The Shuōwén Seal form of 青(𤯞𤯝靑) qīng ‘green’ (color of the east and of springtime) is said to combine 生(𤯓) shēng ‘fresh/alive/green’ (phonosemantic), and 丹 dān ‘cinnabar/red’ (as in 丹青 dānqīng ‘color/pigment’); the old variant 𡷉() seems to have the old form of 丹/𠁿() below, and above is 屮() chè as in 艸(), top of 生(), 木(), and 朱() zhū ‘red’. |
| − | Note: | + | Note: The color term 青 ranges from ‘green/blue (grue)’ to ‘dark grue (black)’; in the modern form 青, the upper component 生 is written 龶, and the lower component 丹 looks like 月; cf. 靑/𤯞/𤯝. |
| + | “The 丹 color of 生 vegetation, 生 in the same time phonetic” —Karlgren. (Karlgren regarded this explanation as “far-fetched”.) | ||
“The 丹 hue of 生 growing plants. ... But 丹 means RED! Was the inventor of 青 a Daltonian?” —Wieger. (Daltonism = red/green color blindness.) | “The 丹 hue of 生 growing plants. ... But 丹 means RED! Was the inventor of 青 a Daltonian?” —Wieger. (Daltonism = red/green color blindness.) | ||
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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 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, … | ||
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