鮏

鮏 U+9B8F, 鮏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B8F ← 鮎 [U+9B8E] CJK Unified Ideographs 鮐 → [U+9B90]

Translingual

Han character

鮏 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+5, 16 strokes, cangjie input 弓火竹手一 (NFHQM), composition ⿰魚生)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1468, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46071
• Dae Jaweon: page 2001, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4681, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9B8F

Chinese

trad.		鮏
simp.		𱇡
alternative forms		鯹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (生) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
猜	*sʰlɯː
輤	*sʰleːns
綪	*sʰleːns, *ʔsreːŋ
倩	*sʰleːns, *sʰleŋs
棈	*sʰleːns
蒨	*sʰeːns
篟	*sʰeːns
生	*sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs
牲	*sreŋ
笙	*sreŋ
甥	*sreŋ
鉎	*sreŋ, *sleːŋ
珄	*sreŋ
鼪	*sreŋ, *sreŋs
猩	*sreŋ, *seːŋ
狌	*sreŋ
眚	*sreŋʔ
貹	*sreŋs
崝	*zreːŋ
精	*ʔsleŋ, *ʔsleŋs
菁	*ʔsleŋ
鶄	*ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
蜻	*ʔsleŋ, *sʰleːŋ
鼱	*ʔsleŋ
婧	*ʔsleŋ, *zleŋs, *zleŋʔ
睛	*ʔsleŋ, *sʰleŋʔ
箐	*ʔsleŋ
聙	*ʔsleŋ
旌	*ʔsleŋ
清	*sʰleŋ
圊	*sʰleŋ
請	*sʰleŋʔ, *zleŋs, *zleŋ
凊	*sʰleŋs
䝼	*zleŋs, *zleŋ
靚	*zleŋs
情	*zleŋ
晴	*zleŋ
夝	*zleŋ
靜	*zleŋʔ
靖	*zleŋʔ
睲	*seŋʔ, *seːŋs
惺	*seŋʔ, *seːŋ
性	*sleŋs
姓	*sleŋs
靗	*l̥ʰeŋs
鯖	*ʔljeŋ, *sʰleːŋ
青	*sʰleːŋ
靘	*sʰleːŋ, *sʰleːŋs
掅	*sʰleːŋs
胜	*sleːŋ
曐	*sleːŋ
星	*sleːŋ
鮏	*sleːŋ
腥	*seːŋ, *seːŋs
鯹	*seːŋ
醒	*seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs
篂	*seːŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīng (xing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sing
    • Wade–Giles: hsing¹
    • Yale: syīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shing
    • Palladius: син (sin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: seng

Rime
Character	鮏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	桑經切
Baxter	seng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/seŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/seŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/seŋ/
Wang Li	/sieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/sieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sleːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鮏
Reading #	1/1
No.	11372
Phonetic component	生
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	星
Old Chinese	/*sleːŋ/

Definitions

鮏

1. smell of fish
2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C17218

Japanese

Kanji

鮏

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: なまぐさい (namagusai, 鮏い)、なまぐさ (namagusa, 鮏)、さけ (sake, 鮏)、しゃけ (shake, 鮏)^{←しやけ (syake, 鮏, historical)}

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鮏
さけ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Originally borrowed from Ainu サㇰイベ (sak ibe, “salmon”, literally “summer + eat”, in reference to how the fish would be caught and eaten in the summer), or possible alternative unattested compound サㇰエㇷ゚ (sak ep, literally “summer + food”).

Alternative forms

• 鮭 (most common)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) さけ [sáꜜkè] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [sa̠ke̞]

Noun

鮏(さけ) • (sake) 

1. Alternative spelling of 鮭: salmon

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鮏
しゃけ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Originally borrowed from Ainu シャケンベ (shakembe), apparently as a dialectal variation or corruption of Ainu サㇰイベ (sak ibe, “salmon”, literally “summer + eat”), or of possible alternative unattested compound サㇰエㇷ゚ (sak ep, literally “summer + food”).

Alternative forms

• 鮭 (most common)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しゃけ [sháꜜkè] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɕa̠ke̞]

Noun

鮏(しゃけ) • (shake) 

1. Alternative spelling of 鮭: salmon

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
鮏
なまぐさ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Root stem of adjective 生臭い, 腥い (namagusai, “smelling of fish, meat, or blood; stinky, bad-smelling”), itself a compound of 生 (nama, “raw, uncooked”) +‎ 臭い (kusa, “stink, bad smell”, root stem of 臭い kusai, “stinky, bad-smelling”). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..

Alternative forms

• 生臭 (most common), 腥 (rare)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) なまぐさ [nàmágúsá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [na̠ma̠ɡɯ̟sa̠]

Noun

鮏(なまぐさ) • (namagusa) 

1. a smell of fish, meat, or blood
2. a stink, a bad smell