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創

創

創 U+5275, 創
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5275
← 剴
[U+5274] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 剶 →
[U+5276]
See also: 创 and 剙

Translingual

Han character

創 (radical 18 刀+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人口中弓 (ORLN), four-corner 82600, composition ⿰倉刂)

References

  • KangXi: page 143, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2127
  • Dae Jaweon: page 323, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 350, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5275

Chinese

trad. 創
simp. 创
alt. forms
 
刅
剏
剙
瘡／疮
𠛂
𠛲
𠝀
𠞴
𠟐
𨱠
𠛝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 創
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (倉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
艙 *sʰaːŋ
倉 *sʰaːŋ
蒼 *sʰaːŋ, *sʰaːŋʔ
滄 *sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs
傖 *sʰaːŋ, *zraːŋ
鶬 *sʰaːŋ
凔 *sʰaːŋ
槍 *sʰaŋ, *sʰraːŋ
搶 *sʰaŋ, *sʰaŋʔ, *sʰraŋʔ
蹌 *sʰaŋ
瑲 *sʰaŋ
牄 *sʰaŋ
嗆 *sʰaŋs
創 *sʰraŋ, *sʰraŋs
瘡 *sʰraŋ
愴 *sʰraŋʔ, *sʰraŋs
鎗 *sʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰraŋ, *sʰraŋs) : phonetic 倉 ‎(OC *sʰaːŋ) + semantic 刂 ‎(“knife”) – wound.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 創
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 初亮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃʰɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂʰiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃʰiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂʰɨaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃʰiaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃʰĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂʰi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chuàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 創
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chuàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsrhjangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]raŋ-s/
English begin

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 創
Reading # 2/2
No. 1143
Phonetic
component		 倉
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 剏
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰraŋs/

Definitions

創

  1. to start to (do something); to do something (for the first time); to found; to create; to establish
  2. to expand; to broaden; to extend
  3. to write; to start to compile
  4. to punish; to penalise
  5. unique; special; unseen; creative

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 創
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 初良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃʰɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂʰiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃʰiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂʰɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃʰiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃʰĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂʰi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chuāng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 創
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chuāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsrhjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]raŋ/
English wound (v.)

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 創
Reading # 1/2
No. 1139
Phonetic
component		 倉
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 創
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰraŋ/

Definitions

創

  1. to injure; to harm; to damage
  2. to cut; to slash; to sever
  3. damage; wound; knife cut
  4. Alternative form of 瘡／疮 (chuāng, “scar”).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

創

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. genesis
  2. wound
  3. injury
  4. hurt
  5. start
  6. originate

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

創 (sáng, sang)

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