Character: 升
Modern (Beijing) reading: shēng
Preclassic Old Chinese: tǝŋ
Classic Old Chinese: tǝŋ
Western Han Chinese: tǝŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: ćǝŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćɨŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćɨŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: ćɨŋ
Middle Chinese: śiŋ
English meaning : to climb, ascend, rise
Russian meaning[s]: 1) восходить, подниматься; возрасти; 2) поднять, возвысить, продвинуть; 3) шэн (мера объема, равная 1,03547 литра); 4) шэн (кусок материи в 80 ниток основы); 5) Шэн (фамилия)
Comments: Also used for a homonymous *tǝŋ (MC śiŋ) 'a measure of capacity'. For *t- (without fricativization) cf. Xiamen cin1, Fuzhou ciŋ1.
Radical: 24
Four-angle index: 2769
Karlgren code: 0897 a-c
Vietnamese reading: thăng
Dali Bai: sɨ5
Shijing occurrences: 50.2
