総

See also: 總 and 总

総 U+7DCF, 総 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DCF ← 緎 [U+7DCE] CJK Unified Ideographs 緐 → [U+7DD0]

Translingual

Traditional	總
Shinjitai	総
Simplified	总

Glyph origin

Variant of 總. Simplified from 總 (悤 → 忩). It can be analysed as inheriting the variant 忩 of component 悤.

Han character

総 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火金戈心 (VFCIP), composition ⿰糹忩)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27620
• Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3417, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7DCF

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 総 – see 總 (“to collect; overall; altogether; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 總).

Etymology 2

trad.		総
simp.		𰬥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cōng (cong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cong
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻung¹
    • Yale: tsūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsong
    • Palladius: цун (cun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

総

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References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), N00129

Japanese

Shinjitai	総
Kyūjitai	總

Kanji

総

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 總)

1. general, overall, total

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)
• Kun: すぶ (subu, 総ぶ); すべる (suberu, 総べる); すべて (subete, 総て); ふさ (fusa, 総)
• Nanori: うさ (usa); ずさ (zusa)

Compounds

• 総裁(そうさい) (sōsai): president
• 総合(そうごう) (sōgō): synthesis, consolidation
• 総会(そうかい) (sōkai): general meeting

Etymology

Kanji in this term
総
そう Grade: 5
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
總 (kyūjitai)

Prefix

総(そう) • (sō-) 

1. overall

   総(そう)工費(こうひ)

   sō-kōhi

   overall construction cost

Korean

Hanja

総 • (chong) (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune–Reischauer ch'ong, Yale chong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

総: Hán Nôm readings: tổng

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