Zi:青
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
2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary (namespace Jyut):
►ceng1 青 b.f./char. ►biu1 ceng1 標青 ►cau3 ceng1 臭青 ►ceng1 bi1 bi1 青啤啤 ►ceng1 gwaa1 ding3 青瓜椗
►cing1 青 b.f./char. ►cing1 ceon1 dau6/2 青春豆 ►cing1 tai4 zi2 青提子 ►cing1 zau1 jing1 nai4 青洲英坭 ►fai3 cing1 廢青
One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►³qīng 青 {B} s.v. ①nature's color; green; blue; greenish black ②not ripe ‖ Júzi hái ∼ ne. 橘子还∼呢。 The oranges are not ripe yet. ◆b.f. youth; young (of people) ►qīngnián 青年 ◆n. short for Qinghai province and Qingdao city in Shandong
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.
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.
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, …
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
HDC: 丹青 : 丹砂和青雘, 可作颜料; 红色和青色; 绚丽的色彩; 画像, 图画; 画工; 绘画,作画; 丹青色艳而不易泯灭, 故以比喻始终不渝; 史籍; 使增辉, 生色; 丹墀, 青琐; 丹青地 (朝廷庙堂)
HDC: 青雘/臒 : 一种青色矿物颜料, 一般认为即今石青、白青之属, (古) 常作涂饰用
►references: Guǎngyùn:193.31; Wieger:79f,115d; Henshall:43; Karlgren:AD1085,GSR812c'; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:6.4046.1; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:066.1.07; Wáng(1993):197; EDOC:1
►components: 龶月
►Cantonese: cheng\ ching\
Shuōwén: (𤯞)
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<comp char='龶' uni='9FB6' points='0,0 128,52' />
<comp char='月' uni='6708' variant='6' points='20,70 108,128' />
<!-- 2013-01-31T15:27:02Z -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='龶' uni='9FB6' points='0,0 128,70'>
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<stroke type='h' points='14,82 114,82' />
<comp char='丄' uni='4E04' points='0,0 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='丄' uni='4E04' points='0,0 128,124' radical='D2'>
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<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='月' uni='6708' variant='6' points='16,4 112,128'>
<comp char='冂' uni='5182' variant='4' points='0,0 128,128' />
<comp char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,35 128,69' />
<!-- variant based on [U+2E9D](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='冂' uni='5182' variant='4' points='4,4 124,128' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='s' points='0,0 0,128' />
<stroke type='hzg' points='0,0 128,0 128,128 82,106' head='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+E6DA](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='二' uni='4E8C' variant='5' points='0,4 128,124' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,0 128,0' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' head='cut' tail='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF79](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+9752
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