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忠

忠

See also: 中心

Translingual

Han character

忠 (radical 61 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 中心 (LP), four-corner 50336, composition ⿱中心)

References

  • KangXi: page 377, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10353
  • Dae Jaweon: page 704, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2273, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5FE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 忠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 忠
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (中) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
中 *tuŋ, *tuŋs
忠 *tuŋ
衷 *tuŋ, *tuŋs
忡 *tʰuŋ
浺 *tʰuŋ
盅 *tʰuŋ, *duŋ, *tjoŋ
种 *duŋ
沖 *duŋ
翀 *duŋ
仲 *duŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuŋ) : phonetic 中 ‎(OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs) + semantic 心 ‎(“heart”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 忠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 東 (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 陟弓切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʈɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈiuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȶiuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈuwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ȶiuŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ȶĭuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȶi̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhōng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 忠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ trjuwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*truŋ/
English loyal

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 忠
Reading # 1/1
No. 17408
Phonetic
component		 中
Rime
group		 終
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 中
Old
Chinese		 /*tuŋ/

Definitions

忠

  1. loyal; devoted; faithful
  2. loyalty; devotion; fidelity

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

忠

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. loyalty

Readings

Proper noun

忠 ‎(hiragana ただし, romaji Tadashi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

忠 • ‎(chung) (hangeul 충, revised chung, McCune-Reischauer ch'ung, Yale chwung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忠 (trung, võ, vű)

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