靜

靜 (Kangxi radical 174, 靑+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手月月尸木 (QBBSD), four-corner 5225₇, composition ⿰青爭(T) or ⿰靑爭(JK))

• 𫣺, 瀞, 𬎛, 𧂮, 𭟝, 𥶹, 𨷧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1382, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42578
• Dae Jaweon: page 1893, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 4049, character 1
• Unihan data for U+975C

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zleŋʔ): phonetic 青 (OC *sʰleːŋ) + phonetic 爭 (OC *ʔsreːŋ). Note that 青 is also a compound with two phonetic components.

Shuowen interprets 青 (“blue”) as a semantic component.

Perhaps from Mon-Khmer; compare Old Khmer siṅ (“to stay in/at; to abide; to be still”) (Schuessler, 2007). 靖 (OC *zleŋʔ) is the same word (ibid.).

靜

1. silent; not making a noise

   夜深人靜／夜深人静  ―  yèshēnrénjìng  ―  quiet in the dead of night

   請大家靜一靜！／请大家静一静！  ―  Qǐng dàjiā jìng yī jìng!  ―  please everybody, quiet down

   佢今日咁靜嘅？ [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad.]
   佢今日咁静嘅？ [Guangzhou Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ gam¹ jat⁶ gam³ zing⁶ ge²? [Jyutping]

   they are so quiet today?

   靜少少吖唔該。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad.]
   静少少吖唔该。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, simp.]

   zing⁶ siu² siu² aa¹ m⁴ goi¹. [Jyutping]

   quiet down a bit, please

2. still; motionless

   靜止／静止  ―  jìngzhǐ  ―  to be still

   心靜自然涼／心静自然凉  ―  xīn jìng zìrán liáng  ―  inner calm naturally [helps one] cool down (a phrase used during periods of hot weather)

   • 水靜則平，平則清，清則見物之形，弗能匿也，故可以為正。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     水静则平，平则清，清则见物之形，弗能匿也，故可以为正。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Huainanzi, 2^nd century BCE

     Shuǐ jìng zé píng, píng zé qīng, qīng zé jiàn wù zhī xíng, fú néng nì yě, gù kě yǐwéi zhèng. [Pinyin]

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3. to calm down

靜

1. (Mainland China Hokkien) to warm up (of weather)

   燒靜／烧静 [Hokkien]  ―  sio-chīⁿ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  warm

2. (Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to clear up (after rain, wind, etc.)

• “靜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 静)

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• Go-on: じょう (jō)
• Kan-on: せい (sei)
• Kun: しず (shizu, 靜)^{←しづ (sidu, 靜, historical)}、しずか (shizuka, 靜か)、しずむ (shizumu, 靜む)、しずめる (shizumeru, 靜める)、しずまる (shizumaru, 靜まる)
• Nanori: しずむ (shizumu)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕɘ(ː)ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [정(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource

靜 (eumhun 조용할 정 (joyonghal jeong))

1. hanja form^? of 정 (“quiet, silence, static”)

   정전기(靜電氣) ― static electricity

   정(靜)하중 ― jeonghajung ― dead weight

靜: Hán Nôm readings: tĩnh

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