清

The character present in the Kangxi dictionary is 淸 (U+6DF8), which is also the form used in Korea.

清 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水手一月 (EQMB), four-corner 3512₇, composition ⿰氵青(GHTJV))

• 蔳, 𢴆, 𤂅, 𪸃, 𬈚, 𬈴, 𤄯, 𠑴

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 633, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17695
• Dae Jaweon: page 1038, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1637, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6E05

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰleŋ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 青 (OC *sʰleːŋ).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)s(j)aŋ (“clear; pure; clean”); cognate with Tibetan གཙང (gtsang, “clean; pure”), Mizo thiang (“to be clear; to be clean; to be pure”), Southern Qiang ɕó, Drung cangma (“clean”), Burmese စင် (cang, “clean, pure”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Within Chinese, cognate with 淨 (OC *zeŋs, “clean”), 醒 (OC *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs, “to wake up; to become sober”), and allofamic with 星 (OC *sleːŋ, “star”), 晴 (OC *zleŋ, “(of weather) clear; fine”); possibly also related to 靜 (OC *zleŋʔ, “quiet”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Perhaps an areal word; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *caŋ (“to glitter”) (Schuessler, 2007).

清

1. clear; limpid
2. clean; unstained
3. pure; unmixed
4. distinct; clear; apparent
5. fair and honest; upright
6. quiet; still
7. (phonetics) unaspirated
8. to clear (throat, etc.); to clean
9. to settle; to sort out
10. (～朝) the Qing (Ching) dynasty (Manchu) (1644-1911)
11. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Gan, Xiang, Eastern Min, of liquids) dilute, thin
12. (Teochew) only; merely
13. a surname

• (the Qing dynasty):

• (dilute, thin):

• (only):

• → English: Ching, Cing, Qing

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02224

Rebracketing of the reading of Ching, which is a nonstandard romanisation of 師兄 / 师兄 (si¹ hing¹).

清

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak) synonym of 師兄 / 师兄 (si¹ hing¹)

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 淸)

1. clear
2. clarity
3. refreshing
4. clean, pure
5. Qing dynasty

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō ^†)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Tō-on: しん (shin)
• Kun: きよい (kiyoi, 清い, Jōyō)、きよめる (kiyomeru, 清める, Jōyō)、きよまる (kiyomaru, 清まる, Jōyō)、きよらか (kiyoraka, 清らか)、さやか (sayaka, 清か)、すむ (sumu, 清む)
• Nanori: あき (aki)、いさみ (isami)、きよ (kiyo)、きよし (kiyoshi)、さや (saya)、し (shi)、すが (suga)、すがし (sugashi)、すず (suzu)、すみ (sumi)、せ (se)

Borrowing from Mandarin Chinese 清 (qīng, literally “bright, clear”).

清(しん) • (Shin) 

1. the Qing dynasty (1616–1912)
2. a place name (clarification of this definition is needed)

From Middle Chinese 清 (MC tshjeng).

清(せい) • (Sei) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

From Old Japanese, first attested in the Kojiki (712 CE).

Stem of 清か (sayaka, “bright, clear”).

Cognate with 冴える (saeru).^[1]

清(さや) • (saya) 

1. brightly, clearly, vividly
2. cleanly, freshly, purely
3. rustlingly

• Usually takes the particle に (ni).

• さやか (sayaka)

清(さや) • (Saya) 

1. a female given name

Nominalization of 清か (sayaka, “bright, clear”).

清(さやか) • (Sayaka) 

1. a female given name

From classical adjective 清し (kiyoshi), modern 清い (kiyoi, “clear”).

清(きよし) • (Kiyoshi) 

1. a surname
2. a unisex given name

清 (eumhun 맑을 청 (malgeul cheong))

1. alternative form of 淸

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: すーらせん (suurasen, 清ーらせん)

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

• On (unclassified): しー (shī)
• Kun: ちゅらさん (churasan, 清らさん)

• 清(しー)明(みー) (shīmī)

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: きゅらさい (kyurasai, 清らさい)

清: Hán Nôm readings: thanh, thảnh, thênh, thinh

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