章

Translingual

Etymology

音 + 十 (together)

Han character

章 (radical 117 立+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿日十 (YTAJ), four-corner 0040₆)

1. composition
2. chapter, section
3. a Chinese surname

Derived characters

• 障

References

• KangXi: page 871, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25761
• Dae Jaweon: page 1301, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2709, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7AE0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

章 (Yale jeung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

章 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しょう (shō)
• Kun: あや (aya), しるし (shirushi), あきらか (akiraka)

Compounds

• 章魚
• 章識
• 章章
• 章奏
• 章程
• 章表
• 章服
• 章法
• 文章

Proper noun

章 (hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

章 (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

章 (pinyin zhāng (zhang1), Wade-Giles chang¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

章 (chương)