村

See also: 材 and 邨

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

EtymologyEdit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰuːn): phonetic 寸 ‎(OC *sʰuːns) + semantic 木 ‎(“hand”) – to strike with the hand, to spank or scold.

Han characterEdit

村 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木木戈 (DDI), four-corner 4490₀, composition ⿰木寸)

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 511, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14464
• Dae Jaweon: page 896, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6751

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		村
alt. forms		邨

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cūn (cun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhûn
• Min Dong (BUC): chŏng
• Min Nan (POJ): chhoan
• Wu (Wiktionary): tshen (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'un¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuen
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun¹
    • Yale: chyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhûn
    • Hakka Romanization System: cun´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cun¹
    • IPA: /t͡sʰun²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan
    • Tâi-lô: tshuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoafn
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tshen (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰəɲ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰuən/▼

Rime
Character	村
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	此尊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuən/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuon/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwən/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuən/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cūn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰuːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	村
Reading #	1/1
No.	1910
Phonetic component	寸
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	村
Old Chinese	/*sʰuːn/

DefinitionsEdit

村

1. village, hamlet

   農村 / 农村  ―  nóngcūn  ―  rural area, village, countryside

   鄉村 / 乡村  ―  xiāngcūn  ―  rural area, village, countryside

2. rustic, boorish, uncouth, vulgar (attributive)
3. (archaic) to scold

See alsoEdit

• 城 (chéng)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

村

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. village

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: そん (son)
• Kan’on: そん (son)
• Kun: むら (mura)

Usage notesEdit

Frequently found as part of a surname, with reading むら ‎(mura), as in 村上 (むらかみ) ‎(Murakami).

CompoundsEdit

• 村落 (そんらく) ‎(sonraku, “village, hamlet”)

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji in this term
村
むら Grade: 1
kun'yomi

EtymologyEdit

Cognate with 群 ‎(mura, “gathering”).

PronunciationEdit

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) むら​ [mùráꜜ] (Odaka - [2])
• IPA^(key): [mɯᵝɾ̠a̠]

NounEdit

村 ‎(hiragana むら, romaji mura)

1. village

ReferencesEdit

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

村 • ‎(chon)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 촌 (McCune-Reischauer: ch'on, Yale: chon)

• Name (hangeul): 마을 (revised: maeul, McCune-Reischauer: maŭl, Yale: maul)

1. Hanja form^? of 촌, “village”.

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

村 (thôn, thon, thun, chon, chôn, thuôn, thuốn, xóm)

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