忪

忪 U+5FEA, 忪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FEA ← 忩 [U+5FE9] CJK Unified Ideographs 快 → [U+5FEB]

Translingual

Han character

忪 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心金戈 (PCI), four-corner 9803₂, composition ⿰忄公)

1. quiet, calm, tranquil, peaceful

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 377, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10367
• Dae Jaweon: page 705, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2277, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5FEA

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
慃	*qroːŋʔ
袞	*kluːnʔ
蔉	*kluːnʔ
滾	*kluːnʔ
忩	*sʰloːŋ
鬆	*sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ
凇	*sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
公	*kloːŋ
蚣	*kloːŋ, *kljoŋ
翁	*qloːŋ
螉	*qloːŋ
蓊	*qloːŋ, *qloːŋʔ
嗡	*qloːŋ
滃	*qloːŋʔ
暡	*qloːŋʔ
勜	*qloːŋʔ
塕	*qloːŋʔ
瓮	*qloːŋs
崧	*sqʰluŋ
菘	*sqʰluŋ
硹	*sqʰluŋ
淞	*sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
蜙	*sqʰloŋ
倯	*sqʰloŋ
松	*sɢloŋ
訟	*sɢloŋ, *sɢloŋs
頌	*sɢloŋs, *loŋ
忪	*kljoŋ
彸	*kljoŋ
衳	*kljoŋ
伀	*kljoŋ
妐	*kljoŋ
炂	*kljoŋ
鈆	*kljoŋ, *lon

Etymology 1

trad.		忪
simp. #		忪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
    • Palladius: чжун (čžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyowng

Rime
Character	忪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職容切
Baxter	tsyowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuawŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kljoŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	忪
Reading #	1/1
No.	4120
Phonetic component	公
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	鍾
Old Chinese	/*kljoŋ/

Definitions

忪

1. terrified; frightened

   怔忪  ―  zhēngsōng  ―  frightened

Compounds

• 忪懞／忪蒙
• 忪蒙
• 怔忪 (zhēngzhōng)

 

Etymology 2

trad.		忪
simp. #		忪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sōng (song¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: song
    • Wade–Giles: sung¹
    • Yale: sūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: song
    • Palladius: сун (sun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sung¹
    • Yale: sūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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Definitions

忪

1. Used in 惺忪 (xīngsōng).

Compounds

• 惺忪 (xīngsōng)
• 睡眼惺忪 (shuìyǎnxīngsōng)

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01060
• “忪”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

忪

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)、しゅ (shu)
• Kun: おどろく (odoroku)

Vietnamese

Han character

忪: Hán Nôm readings: tùng

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References

• Nom Foundation