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唱

唱

唱 U+5531, 唱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5531
← 唰
[U+5530] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 唲 →
[U+5532]

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

唱 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口日日 (RAA), four-corner 66060, composition ⿰口昌)

References

  • KangXi: page 193, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3765
  • Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 640, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5531

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 唱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 唱
Small seal 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰjaŋs) : semantic 口 + phonetic 昌 ‎(OC *tʰjaŋ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 唱
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵³/
/t͡sʰɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /tʃʰaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰaŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /t͡sʰaŋ²¹³/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰɑ̃³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰɑŋ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰi⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕia³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiau⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂʰan⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʰɔn⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɔŋ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰoŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʃʰoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰœŋ³³/
Nanning /t͡sʰœŋ³³/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰœŋ³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiɔŋ²¹/
/t͡sʰiũ²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰuɔŋ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰiɔŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiaŋ²¹³/
/t͡sʰio²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /saŋ³⁵/
/sio³⁵/
Rime
Character 唱
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 尺亮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰɨaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 唱
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 唱
Reading # 1/1
No. 1257
Phonetic
component		 昌
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 唱
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰjaŋs/

Definitions

唱

  1. to sing
    唱歌  ―  chànggē  ―  to sing a song
  2. to chant
  3. to call
  4. song
  5. A surname​.

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

唱

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. chant
  2. choir

Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

唱 (xướng, xẳng, xang, sướng, xắng, xẵng)

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