宗

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Historical forms of the character 宗
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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)

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

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		宗

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zōng (zong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: tsung¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzong
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chong
    • Tâi-lô: tsong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zofng
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔŋ⁴⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 宗
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/suŋ⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡suŋ²¹/
	Jinan	/t͡suŋ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡səŋ²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡suŋ²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡suŋ²¹/
	Xining	/t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/t͡sũn³¹/
	Ürümqi	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/t͡soŋ⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/t͡soŋ³¹/
	Hefei	/t͡səŋ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡suəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡suŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sũŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡soŋ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡soŋ³³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡soŋ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʌ̃³¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡san¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡soŋ³³/
	Xiangtan	/t͡sən³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡suŋ⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/t͡suŋ²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡soŋ⁵³/
	Nanning	/t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/t͡sɔŋ⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡soŋ³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/toŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡suoŋ/▼

Rime
Character	宗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	冬 (5)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	作冬切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡suoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡suoŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡soŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sawŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡soŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡suoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡suoŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zōng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ts]ˤuŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsuːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	宗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zōng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsowng ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˤuŋ/
English	ancestral temple
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	宗
Reading #	1/1
No.	17892
Phonetic component	宗
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	宗
Old Chinese	/*ʔsuːŋ/

DefinitionsEdit

宗

1. ancestral temple
2. ancestors or elders of a people
3. family

   宗法 (zōngfǎ)

4. having the same ancestry

   宗兄

5. school, sect

   禪宗／禅宗

6. main purpose

   宗旨 (zōngzhǐ)

7. classifier for legal cases

See alsoEdit

• (ancestral temple): 祖廟／祖庙 (zǔmiào)

CompoundsEdit

Terms derived from 宗

• 宗匠
• 宗師／宗师
• 宗廟／宗庙 (zōngmiào)
• 宗教 (zōngjiào)

• 宗族 (zōngzú)
• 宗旨 (zōngzhǐ)
• 宗法 (zōngfǎ)

• 宗派 (zōngpài)
• 宗祠 (zōngcí)
• 宗譜／宗谱

ReferencesEdit

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)
• yedict.com (叶典)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

宗

(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”)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

1. fundamental knowledge
2. root, ancestry

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

宗 (tông, tong, tôn, tung)

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