衷

衷	U+8877, 衷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8877

Translingual edit

Han character edit

衷 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+4 in Chinese, 衣+3 in Japanese, 10 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 十中竹女 (JLHV) or 卜中竹女 (YLHV), four-corner 5073₂, composition ⿴衣中 or ⿳亠中𧘇)

Derived characters edit

𠂻

References edit

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1112, character 28
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34139
Dae Jaweon: page 1578, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3076, character 10
Unihan data for U+8877

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.		衷

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 衷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs) : semantic 衣 (“clothes”) + phonetic 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle; center”).

Etymology edit

Related to 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle; centre”); see there for more.

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cung¹, zung¹
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): cung¹
Northern Min (KCR): cé̤ng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thiong / tiong

(Teochew, Peng'im): cong¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
  - Wade–Giles: chung¹
  - Yale: jūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
  - Palladius: чжун (čžun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cung¹, zung¹
  - Yale: chūng, jūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsung¹, dzung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cung¹, zung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: cung¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰʊŋ⁴⁴/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cé̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœyŋ⁵⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiong
  - Tâi-lô: thiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tiofng
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɔŋ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiong
  - Tâi-lô: tiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diofng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cong¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshong
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰoŋ³³/

Middle Chinese: trjuwng, trjuwngH

Rime
Character	衷	衷
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	知 (9)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	東 (2)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	陟弓切	陟仲切
Baxter	trjuwng	trjuwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈɨuŋ/	/ʈɨuŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈiuŋ/	/ʈiuŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiuŋ/	/ȶiuŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈuwŋ/	/ʈuwŋ^H/
Li Rong	/ȶiuŋ/	/ȶiuŋ^H/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuŋ/	/ȶĭuŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯uŋ/	/ȶi̯uŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng	zhòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung¹	zung³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*tuŋ/, /*tuŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衷	衷
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17409	17411
Phonetic component	中	中
Rime group	終	終
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	中	中
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/	/*tuŋs/