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縱

縱

See also: 纵 and 縦

Translingual

Traditional 縱
Shinjitai 縦
Simplified 纵

Han character

縱 (radical 120 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹人人 (VFHOO), four-corner 28981, composition ⿰糹從)

  1. indulge in, give free rein to
  2. even if

References

  • KangXi: page 935, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27819
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1374, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3445, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7E31

Chinese

trad. 縱
simp. 纵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (从) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摐 *sʰroːŋ, *sʰloŋ
鏦 *sʰroːŋ, *sʰloŋ
豵 *ʔsloːŋ, *ʔsloŋ
嵸 *ʔsloːŋ, *ʔsloːŋʔ
蓯 *ʔsloːŋʔ
蹤 *ʔsloŋ
縱 *ʔsloŋ, *ʔsloŋs
樅 *ʔsloŋ, *sʰloŋ
磫 *ʔsloŋ
熧 *ʔsloŋ
瘲 *ʔsloŋs
暰 *sʰloŋ
瑽 *sʰloŋ
從 *zloŋ, *zloŋ, *zloŋs
从 *zloŋ
慫 *sloŋʔ
聳 *sloŋʔ
傱 *sloŋʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 縱 縱
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 精 (13) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 即容切 子用切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sɨoŋ/ /t͡sɨoŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sioŋ/ /t͡sioŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sioŋ/ /t͡sioŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡suawŋ/ /t͡suawŋH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sioŋ/ /t͡sioŋH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sĭwoŋ/ /t͡sĭwoŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si̯woŋ/ /t͡si̯woŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zōng zòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 縱
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zòng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsjowngH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ts]oŋ-s/
English let loose

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 縱 縱
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1844 1849
Phonetic
component		 从 从
Rime
group		 東 東
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 縱 縱
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsloŋ/ /*ʔsloŋs/

Verb

縱

  1. to set loose; to give free rein to

References

Japanese

Kanji

縱

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

縱 • ‎(jong, chong) (hangeul 종, 총, revised jong, chong, McCune-Reischauer chong, ch'ong, Yale cong, chong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縱 (túng, tung)

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