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叢

叢

叢 U+53E2, 叢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E2
← 叡
[U+53E1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 口 →
[U+53E3]
See also: 丛

Translingual

Han character

叢 (radical 29 又+16, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿金廿水 (TCTE), four-corner 32147, composition ⿱丵取)

  1. bush, shrub
  2. thicket
  3. collection

References

  • KangXi: page 167, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3220
  • Dae Jaweon: page 379, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 402, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+53E2

Chinese

trad. 叢
simp. 丛

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (取) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陬 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *ʔslo
棷 *ʔsloː, *sʰloːʔ, *sloːʔ, *ʔsru
掫 *ʔsloː, *ʔsruʔ, *ʔslo
緅 *ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *slos
趣 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰlos
取 *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ
鯫 *zloː, *zloːʔ, *sʰlo
棸 *rlu, *rluʔ, *ʔsru
鄹 *ʔsru, *zloʔ, *ljoːnʔ
郰 *ʔsru
齱 *ʔsru, *sʰroːɡ
菆 *ʔsru, *sʰros, *zloːn
箃 *ʔsru
黀 *ʔsru
驟 *zrus
最 *zloːds
襊 *sʰoːds, *sʰoːd
蕞 *zoːds
嘬 *sʰroːds
諏 *ʔslo
娵 *ʔslo
娶 *sʰloʔ, *sʰlos, *slo
聚 *zloʔ, *zlos
埾 *zlos
藂 *zloːŋ
叢 *zloːŋ
繓 *ʔsoːd
撮 *ʔsoːd, *sʰoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *zloːŋ) : semantic 丵 + phonetic 取 ‎(OC *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 叢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徂紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zəwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zuŋ/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cóng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 叢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cóng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzuwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*dzˤoŋ/
English collect; thicket

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 叢
Reading # 1/1
No. 10668
Phonetic
component		 取
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 叢
Old
Chinese		 /*zloːŋ/

Definitions

叢

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Japanese

Kanji

叢

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

叢 ‎(hiragana くさむら, romaji kusamura)

  1. clump of bushes, thicket

Alternative forms

Korean

Hanja

叢 • ‎(chong) (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

叢 (tòng, tùng)

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