Wiktionary

創

See also: 创 and 剙
創 U+5275, 創
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5275
← 剴
[U+5274] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 剶 →
[U+5276]

Translingual

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Han character

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

Derived characters

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References

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

Chinese

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trad. 創
simp. 创
alternative forms
刅
刱
剏
剙
瘡／疮
刅
刱
剏
剙
瘡／疮
𠛂
𠛲
𠝀
𠞴
𠟐
𨱠
𠛝
 

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 創
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
 
Characters in the same phonetic series (倉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
艙 *sʰaːŋ
倉 *sʰaːŋ
蒼 *sʰaːŋ, *sʰaːŋʔ
滄 *sʰaːŋ, *sʰraŋs
傖 *sʰaːŋ, *zraːŋ
鶬 *sʰaːŋ
凔 *sʰaːŋ
槍 *sʰaŋ, *sʰraːŋ
搶 *sʰaŋ, *sʰaŋʔ, *sʰraŋʔ
蹌 *sʰaŋ
瑲 *sʰaŋ
牄 *sʰaŋ
嗆 *sʰaŋs
創 *sʰraŋ, *sʰraŋs
瘡 *sʰraŋ
愴 *sʰraŋʔ, *sʰraŋs
鎗 *sʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰraŋ, *sʰraŋs): phonetic 倉 (OC *sʰaːŋ) + semantic 刀 (“knife”) – wound.

Pronunciation 1

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Rime
Character 創
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 初亮切
Baxter tsrhjangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ʃʰɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈ͡ʂʰiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ʃʰiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈ͡ʂʰɨaŋH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ʃʰiaŋH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ʃʰĭaŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chuàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cong3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 創
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chuàng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsrhjangH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[tsʰ]raŋ-s/
English begin

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 創
Reading # 2/2
No. 1143
Phonetic
component 		倉
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		剏
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰraŋs/

Definitions

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創

  1. to start to (do something); to do something (for the first time); to found; to create; to establish
  2. to expand; to broaden; to extend
  3. to write; to start to compile
  4. to punish; to penalise
  5. unique; special; unseen; creative
    創意／创意  ―  chuàngyì  ―  creativity
  6. (Internet slang, humorous; otherwise dialectal) Alternative form of 撞 (“to hit”)
  7. (Southern Min) to do; to perform
  8. (Southern Min) to make; to produce
  9. (Southern Min) to tease; to poke fun at

Compounds

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Pronunciation 2

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Note:
  • chhong/chhòng - literary;
  • chhng - vernacular.
Rime
Character 創
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 初良切
Baxter tsrhjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ʃʰɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʈ͡ʂʰiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ʃʰiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʈ͡ʂʰɨaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ʃʰiaŋ/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ʃʰĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 創
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chuāng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsrhjang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[tsʰ]raŋ/
English wound (v.)

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 創
Reading # 1/2
No. 1139
Phonetic
component 		倉
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		創
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰraŋ/

Definitions

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創

  1. to injure; to harm; to damage
  2. to cut; to slash; to sever
  3. damage; wound; knife cut
  4. Alternative form of 瘡 / 疮 (chuāng, “sore”)

Compounds

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References

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  • “創”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
  • “創”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “创”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 36.
  • 杨绪明, 何梦茹, 王佳萌 (2024 December 24) “网语“创飞”的形成及流行动因分析”, in 河南财政金融学院学报（哲学社会科学版）‎[2], number 6, →DOI, pages 79–82

Japanese

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Kanji

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創

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. injury, wound
  2. originate, start

Readings

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From Middle Chinese 創 (MC tsrhjang, “injury, wound”):

From Middle Chinese 創 (MC tsrhjangH, “originate, start”):

Compounds

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
創
そう
Grade: 6
kan'on

/t͡ʃau/ → /sau/ → /sɔː/ → /soː/

From Middle Chinese 創 (MC tsrhjang|tsrhjangH).

Proper noun

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創(そう) • (Sō) ←さう (Sau)?

  1. a female given name

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
創
つくる
Grade: 6
irregular

Nominalization of verb 創る (tsukuru, “to create (new things)”).

Proper noun

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創(つくる) • (Tsukuru) 

  1. a female given name

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
創
はじめ
Grade: 6
irregular

Nominalization of the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 始める (hajimeru, “to begin, start”).

Proper noun

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創(はじめ) • (Hajime) 

  1. a female given name

Korean

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Chinese 創 (MC tsrhjangH).

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Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [t͡ɕʰa̠(ː)ŋ]
  • Phonetic hangul: [창(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

創 (eumhun 비롯할 창 (birothal chang))

  1. hanja form? of 창 (“to start; to originate”)
  2. hanja form? of 창 (“unique; special; creative”)

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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From Middle Chinese 創 (MC tsrhjang).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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創 (eumhun 다칠 창 (dachil chang))

  1. hanja form? of 창 (“damage; wound”)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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創: Hán Nôm readings: sáng, sang

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