宗

§EtymologyEdit

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 示 (“worship”) – house of worship.

§Han characterEdit

宗 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一一火 (JMMF), four-corner 3090₁, composition ⿱宀示)

1. lineage, ancestry
2. ancestor, clan
3. school, sect
4. numerary adjunct for legal case

§ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 283, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7106
• Dae Jaweon: page 557, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 917, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5B97

§HanziEdit

宗 (Jyutping zung1, Yale jung1)

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§KanjiEdit

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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§ReadingsEdit

• Goon: そ (so)
• Kan’on: そう (sō)
• Kan’yōon: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: むね (mune), たっとぶ (tattobu)

§CompoundsEdit

• 宗派 (しゅうは, shūha, “religious sect”)
• 宗教 (しゅうきょう, shūkyō, “religion”)

§HanjaEdit

宗 (jong) (hangeul 종, revised jong, McCune-Reischauer chong)

1. fundamental knowledge
2. root, ancestry

§HanziEdit

宗 (Pinyin zōng (zong1), Wade-Giles tsung¹)

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§CompoundsEdit

• 宗祠
• 宗法
• 宗匠
• 宗教
• 宗庙
• 宗派
• 宗谱
• 宗师
• 宗族
• 宗旨

§Han characterEdit

宗 (tông, tong, tôn, tung)

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