呈 · chéng
submit, show; appear; petition
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
submit, show; appear; petition
- Mandarin
- chéng
- Cantonese
- cing4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 呈 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 정
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5448
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 呈
Character connections
Follow this component
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- drjeng · 直貞 反切 · #917
- Middle Chinese
- drjengH · 直正 反切 · #2977
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7295 · drjeng = 梗開三平清澄 · drjengH = 梗開三去清澄
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- chéng
- kCantonese
- cing4
- kDefinition
- submit, show; appear; petition
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 30.4
- kGradeLevel
- 5
- kTGH
- 2013:716
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- kuáng 10585.010 · chéng,chěng 10589.110
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chéng 0138.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chéng 043.110
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- chéng(40)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- chéng粵cing4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 直貞 直正
- Kangxi positions
- 0181.170
- Guangyun positions
- 192.05 431.01
- GSR references
- 0835r
- Cangjie
- RHG
- Four-corner
- 6010.4