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U+53E2, 叢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E2

[U+53E1]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+53E3]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 29, +16, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿金廿水 (TCTE), four-corner 32147, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 167, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3220
  • Dae Jaweon: page 379, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 402, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+53E2

Chinese edit

trad.
simp.
alternative forms variant and 1955 Draft Simplified
ancient and ROC simp.

variant and Min Nan vernacular

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script Small seal script
   

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *zloːŋ) : semantic + phonetic (OC *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ).

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *C-tsəw-k/ŋ (to collect; to gather; to assemble). Cognate with (OC *zloʔ, *zlos, “to collect; to store”), (OC *zoːɡ, “clan”), (OC *zloːds, “to collect; most”), (OC *ʔsoːŋ, “sheaf; bundle”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation edit


Note:
  • chông - literary;
  • châng - vernacular (classifier for trees).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter dzuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡zuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡zuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡zəwŋ/
Li
Rong
/d͡zuŋ/
Wang
Li
/d͡zuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cóng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cung4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cóng
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzuwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*dzˁoŋ/
English collect; thicket

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 10668
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zloːŋ/

Definitions edit

  1. to collect; to gather; to assemble; to crowd together
  2. bush; shrub; thicket; grove
  3. collection; crowd
  4. (Northern Min, Southern Min) Classifier for plants.
    [Hokkien]  ―  chi̍t châng chhiū [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  a tree
  5. (Hokkien) Classifier for long objects.
  6. a surname

Synonyms edit

  • (classifier for plants):
  • (classifier for long objects):

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
くさむら
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
くさむら
[noun] clump of bushes, thicket
Alternative spellings
草叢, 草むら
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(eum (chong))

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: tòng, tùng

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