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倡

倡

倡 U+5021, 倡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5021
← 倠
[U+5020] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倢 →
[U+5022]

Translingual

Han character

倡 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人日日 (OAA), four-corner 26260, composition ⿰亻昌)

  1. guide, leader
  2. lead, introduce

References

  • KangXi: page 108, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 783
  • Dae Jaweon: page 231, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 177, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5021

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 倡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倡
Large seal script Small seal script
Large seal script

L24011

L24012

L24013

L24010
Small seal script

s05852
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 (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (昌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
昌 *tʰjaŋ
倡 *tʰjaŋ, *tʰjaŋs
猖 *tʰjaŋ
菖 *tʰjaŋ
閶 *tʰjaŋ
鯧 *tʰjaŋ
裮 *tʰjaŋ
琩 *tʰjaŋ
唱 *tʰjaŋs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 倡 倡
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 昌 (24) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 陽 (105) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 尺良切 尺亮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/ /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/ /t͡ɕʰiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/ /t͡ɕʰiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰɨaŋ/ /cʰɨaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiaŋ/ /t͡ɕʰiaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/ /t͡ɕʰĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/ /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chāng chàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyhangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mə-tʰaŋ-s/
English to lead (in singing)

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 倡 倡
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1250 1258
Phonetic
component		 昌 昌
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 昌 唱
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰjaŋ/ /*tʰjaŋs/

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倡

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Japanese

Kanji

倡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

倡 • ‎(chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倡 (xướng)

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