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Translingual

Han character

(radical 145 +4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十中竹女 (JLHV) or 卜中竹女 (YLHV), four-corner 50732)

References

  • KangXi: page 1112, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34139
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1578, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3076, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8877

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tuŋ, *tuŋs
*tuŋ
*tuŋ, *tuŋs
*tʰuŋ
*tʰuŋ
*tʰuŋ, *duŋ, *tjoŋ
*duŋ
*duŋ
*duŋ
*duŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs) : semantic  (clothes) + phonetic  (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (9) (9)
Final () (2) (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨuŋ/ /ʈɨuŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiuŋ/ /ʈiuŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiuŋ/ /ȶiuŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuwŋ/ /ʈuwŋH/
Li
Rong
/ȶiuŋ/ /ȶiuŋH/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭuŋ/ /ȶĭuŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯uŋ/ /ȶi̯uŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōng zhòng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17409 17411
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuŋ/ /*tuŋs/

Definitions

  1. middle
  2. inner feelings; heart; from the bottom of one's heart

Compounds

  • 一本初衷
  • 不衷
  • 丹衷
  • 共話衷腸共话衷肠
  • 初衷 (chūzhōng)
  • 和衷共濟和衷共济
  • 天誘其衷天诱其衷
  • 宸衷
  • 寸衷
  • 得衷
  • 折衷 (zhézhōng)
  • 折衷家庭
  • 無動於衷无动于衷
  • 熱衷热衷 (rèzhōng)
  • 由衷 (yóuzhōng)
  • 由衷之言
  • 由衷感激
  • 素衷
  • 苦衷 (kǔzhōng)
  • 莫衷一是
  • 莫衷壹是
  • 衷心 (zhōngxīn)
  • 衷悃
  • 衷情 (zhōngqíng)
  • 衷曲
  • 衷款
  • 衷素
  • 衷腸衷肠 (zhōngcháng)
  • 衷腸密語衷肠密语
  • 衷腸話衷肠话
  • 衷誠衷诚
  • 言不由衷
  • 隱衷隐衷 (yǐnzhōng)

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trung)

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