青
/t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•blue-green ("grue"); blue (of sky, stone etc.); green (of grass, plants, mountains etc.) · blue-green ("grue")-colored items · crops that have not yet ripened
Etimoloji
Zhang (2022): Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, *tsʰˤeŋ): phonetic 生 (*sreŋ) + phonetic 井 (*tseŋʔ). Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound of 生 (“growth of plants”) + 丹 (“cinnabar”). A variant inspired by this interpretation is 𤯞. The implication being that cinnabar, being used for dyeing, would imply “color” in general, giving the combined meaning “color of growing plants” →…