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宗

宗

Translingual

Han character

宗 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一一火 (JMMF), four-corner 30901, composition ⿱宀示)

References

  • KangXi: page 283, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7106
  • Dae Jaweon: page 557, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 917, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5B97

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 宗

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 宗
Mandarin Beijing /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /suŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡suŋ²¹/
Jinan /t͡suŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡səŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡suŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡suŋ²¹/
Xining /t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /t͡sũn³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡soŋ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡soŋ³¹/
Hefei /t͡səŋ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡soŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡soŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡soŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /t͡san¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡soŋ³³/
Xiangtan /t͡sən³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡suŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡suŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡soŋ⁵³/
Nanning /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡soŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /toŋ²³/
Rime
Character 宗
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 冬 (5)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 作冬切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡suoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡suoŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡soŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡soŋ/
Wang
Li		 /t͡suoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡suoŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zōng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]ˤuŋ/
English ancestral temple

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 宗
Reading # 1/1
No. 17892
Phonetic
component		 宗
Rime
group		 終
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 宗
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsuːŋ/

Definitions

宗

  1. ancestral temple
  2. ancestors or elders of a people
  3. family
    宗法 (zōngfǎ)
  4. having the same ancestry
    宗兄
  5. school, sect
    禪宗／禅宗 (chánzōng)
  6. main purpose
    宗旨 (zōngzhǐ)
  7. classifier for legal cases

See also

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

宗

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. religion

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

宗 • ‎(jong) (hangeul 종, revised jong, McCune-Reischauer chong)

  1. fundamental knowledge
  2. root, ancestry

Vietnamese

Han character

宗 (tông, tong, tôn, tung)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 宗
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (宗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
淙 *zuːŋ, *sruːŋs, *zuːŋ
鬃 *zuːŋ, *ʔsoːŋ, *zuːŋ
漴 *zruːŋs
粽 *ʔsoːŋs
宗 *ʔsuːŋ
倧 *ʔsuːŋ
綜 *ʔsuːŋs
錝 *ʔsuːŋs
賨 *zuːŋ
琮 *zuːŋ
悰 *zuːŋ
孮 *zuːŋ
誴 *zuːŋ
崇 *zruŋ
崈 *zruŋ
踪 *ʔsoŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 宀 ‎(“house”) + 示 ‎(“worship”) – house of worship.

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