窗

Stroke order

窗 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹田水 (JCHWE) or 十金竹田大 (JCHWK), four-corner 3060₈, composition ⿱穴囱(GJKV) or ⿱穴囪(HT))

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 865, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25517
• Dae Jaweon: page 1294, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2731, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7A97

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 穴 (“hole”) + 囱 (“window”).

From circumstantial noun prefix *s- + 通 (OC l̥ˤoŋ, “to penetrate”), literally "where light penetrates" (Baxter and Sagart, 2014).

窗

1. window (Classifier: 扇 m; 個／个 c; 隻／只 c)

   窗簾／窗帘  ―  chuānglián  ―  window blinds

   打開個窗／打开个窗 [Cantonese]  ―  daa² hoi¹ go³ coeng¹   ―  to open the window

Others:

• → Zhuang: cueng

• “窗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “窗”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 36.

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←そう (sou, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: まど (mado, 窗)

窗 • (chang) (hangeul 창)

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窗: Hán Nôm readings: song

1. (archaic, literary) window
2. Short for chấn song (“upright post in a paling or railing”).

   sau song sắt

   behind (iron) bars