僧

Note difference between Chinese form, which uses 曾, and Japanese shinjitai which uses 曽. Both forms are encoded under the same codepoint due to Han unification.

僧 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12 in Chinese, 人+11 in Japanese, 14 strokes in Chinese, 13 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人金田日 (OCWA), four-corner 2826₆, composition ⿰亻曾 (GTKV) or ⿰亻曽 (J))

• 增 (増), 憎

• KangXi: page 117, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1076
• Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 222, character 1
• Unihan data for U+50E7
• Unihan data for U+FA31
• Unihan data for U+2F80A

Historical forms of the character 僧
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s05925 Transcribed ancient scripts L11518 L11519
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sɯːŋ) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 曾 (OC *ʔsɯːŋ, *zɯːŋ) – a kind of person (a Buddhist monk).

Clipping of 僧伽 (MC səŋ ɡɨɑ, “sangha; community of monks, nuns, novices and laity”); see there for more.

僧

1. (Buddhism) monk; bonze
2. (Buddhism) sangha
3. a surname

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

Japanese shinjitai form: 僧 (曾 → 曽).

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 僧)

1. Buddhist priest
2. monk

• Go-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: ぼうず (bōzu, 僧)

Clipping of 僧伽 (sōgya), borrowed from Sanskrit संघ (saṃgha).[2]

• (Tokyo) そ​ー [sóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[3][2]
• IPA^(key): [so̞ː]

僧(そう) • (sō) 

1. a (Buddhist) priest, bonze

From Middle Chinese 僧 (MC səŋ).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰɯŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [승]

Wikisource 僧, eumhun 중 승 (jung seung)

1. Hanja form^? of 승 (“a Buddhist monk”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

僧: Hán Việt readings: tăng (蘇(tô)增(tăng)切(thiết))

1. (Buddhism) priest, bonze