殺青

See also: 杀青

Chinese

		to kill; to murder; to slaughter	green (blue, black); Qinghai province (abbrev.)
trad. (殺青)		殺	青
simp. (杀青)		杀	青

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shāqīng

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄚㄑㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saat³ cing¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shāqīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄚㄑㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shacing
  - Wade–Giles: sha¹-chʻing¹
  - Yale: shā-chīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shaching
  - Palladius: шацин (šacin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂä⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: saat³ cing¹
  - Yale: saat chīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saat⁸ tsing¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sad³ qing¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːt̚³ t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: sreat tsheng

Rime
Character	殺	青
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	鎋 (75)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	所八切	倉經切
Baxter	sreat	tsheng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠɛt̚/	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚæt̚/	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃæt̚/	/t͡sʰɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂəɨt̚/	/t͡sʰɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/ʃɛt̚/	/t͡sʰeŋ/
Wang Li	/ʃæt̚/	/t͡sʰieŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂat̚/	/t͡sʰieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sha	qīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	saat³	cing¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s<r>at [s.r̥]ˤeŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*sreːd sʰleːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	殺	青
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shā	qīng
Middle Chinese	‹ srɛt ›	‹ tsheng ›
Old Chinese	/*s<r>at/	/*[s.r̥]ˁeŋ/
English	kill	green or blue
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	殺	青
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	11010	11362
Phonetic component	杀	生
Rime group	月	耕
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	殺	靑
Old Chinese	/*sreːd/	/*sʰleːŋ/
Notes		說文從生丹，戴桐王筠皆雲從丹生聲

Verb

殺青

(historical) to dry green bamboo strips on fire before writing on them
(figurative) to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc), to finalise (a manuscript)
(in tea manufacture) to heat green tea to prevent fermentation and preserve the green colour