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宗

See also: 完
宗 U+5B97, 宗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B97
← 宖
[U+5B96]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 官 →
[U+5B98]

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TranslingualEdit

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

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 宗

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 宗
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
       
Characters in the same phonetic series (宗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
淙 *zuːŋ, *sruːŋs, *zuːŋ
鬃 *zuːŋ, *ʔsoːŋ, *zuːŋ
漴 *zruːŋs
粽 *ʔsoːŋs
宗 *ʔsuːŋ
倧 *ʔsuːŋ
綜 *ʔsuːŋs
錝 *ʔsuːŋs
賨 *zuːŋ
琮 *zuːŋ
悰 *zuːŋ
孮 *zuːŋ
誴 *zuːŋ
崇 *zruŋ
崈 *zruŋ
踪 *ʔsoŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 示 (“spirit tablet”) – temple; ancestral shrine.

PronunciationEdit

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 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/
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
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  ―  patriarcal clan system
  4. having the same ancestry
    宗兄  ―  zōngxiōng  ―  elder brother
  5. school; sect
    禪宗 / 禅宗  ―  chánzōng  ―  Zen
  6. main purpose
    宗旨  ―  zōngzhǐ  ―  aim
  7. Classifier for legal cases.

See alsoEdit

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 宗

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

宗

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. religion

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

  1. fundamental knowledge
  2. root, ancestry

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

宗 (tông, tong, tôn, tung)

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