誠

See also: 诚
誠 U+8AA0, 誠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AA0
← 誟
[U+8A9F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 誡 →
[U+8AA1]
誠 U+2F9CF, 誠
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9CF
← 䛇
[U+2F9CE] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 諭 →
[U+2F9D0]

Translingual

Han character

誠 (radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口戈竹尸 (YRIHS), four-corner 03650, composition ⿰言成)

References
  • KangXi: page 1163, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35497
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1628, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3963, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8AA0

Chinese
trad. 誠
simp. 诚

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 誠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (成) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
成 *djeŋ
城 *djeŋ
誠 *djeŋ
宬 *djeŋ
郕 *djeŋ
筬 *djeŋ
盛 *djeŋ, *djeŋs
珹 *djeŋ
晟 *djeŋs
墭 *djeŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djeŋ) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 成 (OC *djeŋ).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • chiâⁿ - vernacular;
  • sêng - literary.
Rime
Character 誠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 是征切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑiajŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiɛŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chéng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 誠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chéng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyeng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]eŋ/
English sincere

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 誠
Reading # 1/1
No. 1419
Phonetic
component		 成
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 成
Old
Chinese		 /*djeŋ/

Definitions

誠

  1. sincere, honest
  2. true, real
  3. (Min Nan) very

Compounds
Derived terms from 誠

Synonyms
  • (very):
Dialectal synonyms of 很 (“very; quite”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 甚
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 非常, 很, 十分, 太
Mandarin Beijing 挺, 很, 倍兒
Taiwan 很, 挺
Tianjin 挺, 很
Jinan 挺, 楞
Xi'an 很
Wuhan 蠻, 很
Chengdu 很, 好
Yangzhou 蠻, 稀, 很
Hefei 很
Cantonese Guangzhou 好
Hong Kong 好
Taishan 好
Yangjiang 好
Gan Nanchang 蠻
Hakka Meixian 好
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 當, 已, 還
Liudui (S. Sixian) 蓋, 盡, 還
Hsinchu (Hailu) 當, 已, 還
Dongshi (Dabu) 當, 已, 還
Hsinchu (Raoping) 當, 已, 還
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 足, 真, 實在
Sabah 好
Jin Taiyuan 很, 挺
Min Bei Jian'ou 真
Min Dong Fuzhou 野, 真
Min Nan Xiamen 真, 野, 誠, 有夠
Quanzhou 真, 野, 誠, 有夠
Zhangzhou 盡, 蓋, 足, 足範, 有夠, 出奇, 極死, 見死
Taipei 真, 誠
Kaohsiung 有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
Tainan 有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
Taichung 誠, 蓋, 足
Hsinchu 真, 誠
Lukang 真, 誠
Sanxia 真, 誠
Yilan 有夠, 足, 誠, 盡
Kinmen 足, 誠
Magong 真, 誠
Penang 真, 誠, 真正
Philippines (Manila) 野, 真
Chaozhou 過
Wu Shanghai 蠻, 老
Suzhou 蠻
Wenzhou 蠻, 蒙, 顯
Xiang Changsha 很, 蠻
Shuangfeng 蠻

References

Japanese

Kanji
誠

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Compounds
Kanji in this term
誠
まこと
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

誠 (hiragana まこと, rōmaji makoto)

  1. sincerity

Proper noun

誠 (hiragana まこと, rōmaji Makoto)

  1. A male given name

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

誠 • (seong) (hangeul 성, revised seong, McCune–Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

誠 (thành, thiêng)

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