忡忡

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Chinese

grieved; distressed; sad
grieved; distressed; sad; uneasy
 
grieved; distressed; sad
grieved; distressed; sad; uneasy
 
simp. and trad.
(忡忡)
alternative forms 沖沖冲冲
𢥞𢥞

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (10)
Final () (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter trhjuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈʰɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈʰiuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶʰiuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈʰuwŋ/
Li
Rong
/ȶʰiuŋ/
Wang
Li
/ȶʰĭuŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȶʰi̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cung1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ trhjuwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*tʰruŋ/
English grieved, agitated

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17412
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰuŋ/

Adjective

忡忡

  1. (ideophonic) worried; laden with anxiety
  2. (literary, ideophonic) drooping

Derived terms