唱

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唱 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口日日 (RAA), four-corner 6606₀, composition ⿰口昌)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 193, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3765
• Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 640, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5531

Historical forms of the character 唱
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰjaŋs): semantic 口 + phonetic 昌 (OC *tʰjaŋ).

Same word as 倡 (OC *tʰjaŋs, “to lead; to advocate”). Schuessler (2007), reconstructing the Old Chinese minimally as *k-hlaŋh, considers it to be a Sino-Tibetan word; compare Burmese အချင်း (a.hkyang:, “song, poem”) and perhaps also Proto-Bodo-Garo *lʔəŋ (“to sing”).

唱

1. (literary) to lead in singing
2. to sing

   唱歌  ―  chànggē  ―  to sing a song

3. to call; to cry out; to chant
4. song
5. (Cantonese) to spread (usually negative) information or rumours
6. (literary) to advocate; to initiate

   • 今誠以吾衆詐自稱公子扶蘇、項燕，爲天下唱，宜多應者。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     今诚以吾众诈自称公子扶苏、项燕，为天下唱，宜多应者。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Jīn chéng yǐ wúzhòng zhà zìchēng Gōngzǐ Fúsū, Xiàng Yàn, wéi tiānxià chàng, yí duō yìngzhě.

     If we should indeed, at this moment, take advantage of our numbers, call ourselves the men of Prince Fusu and General Xiang Yan in pretense, and seize the initiative among the whole Empire, it is probable that many would spring into action in response.

7. a surname: Chang

• (song):

Borrowed from English change.

唱

1. (Cantonese) to exchange (currency, money, cash, etc.)

• “Entry #7039”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. chant
2. choir

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kun: となえる (tonaeru, 唱える, Jōyō)、うたう (utau, 唱う)、うた (uta, 唱)

• 歌唱(かしょう) (kashō)
• 合唱(がっしょう) (gasshō)
• 提唱(ていしょう) (teishō)

唱 (eumhun 부를 창 (bureul chang))

1. hanja form^? of 창 (“to chant”)

唱: Hán Nôm readings: xướng, xẳng, xang, sướng, xắng, xẵng

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