創

See also 创, and 剙

Translingual

Han character

創 (radical 18 刀+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人口中弓 (ORLN), four-corner 8260₀)

1. establish, create
2. knife cut

References

• KangXi: page 143, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2127
• Dae Jaweon: page 323, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 350, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5275

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Cantonese

Hanzi

創 (simplified 创, Yale chong3)

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Japanese

Kanji

創 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: きず (kizu), はじめる (hajimeru)

Compounds

• 創作 (sosaku) create
• 創始 (soushi) initiating
• 創造 (souzou) creation
• 創世記 (souseiki) Genesis

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Korean

Hanja

創 (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

創 (simplified 创, pinyin chuàng (chuang4), Wade-Giles ch'uang⁴)

Compounds

• 創造

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Vietnamese

Han character

創 (sáng, sang)