Chinese Character Wiki

烝

zhēng

rise

Boiling 灬 water 氶

Components
丞 meaning component

丞  Meaning component

chéng

  

assist

灬 meaning component

灬  Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

  

fire

Evolution

烝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
烝 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
烝 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
烝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

烝  

zhēng

rise, steam; many, numerous; multitudinous; the masses; to present (to sb); to rise; to advance; to progress; archaic variant of 蒸[zhēng]

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

蒸

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*təŋ

tsying

zhēng

to rise (of steam); steam (v.t.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+70DD

Shuowen

“烝，火气上行也。从火，丞聲。”


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