頌

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See also: 颂
頌 U+980C, 頌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-980C
← 頋
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 頍 →

Translingual

Han character

頌 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金戈一月金 (CIMBC), four-corner 81786, composition ⿰公頁)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1400, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43365
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1917, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4362, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+980C

Chinese

trad. 頌
simp. 颂
alternative forms 𩔜
訟／讼 “to laud”

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (公) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
慃 *qroːŋʔ
袞 *kluːnʔ
蔉 *kluːnʔ
滾 *kluːnʔ
忩 *sʰloːŋ
鬆 *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ
凇 *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
公 *kloːŋ
蚣 *kloːŋ, *kljoŋ
翁 *qloːŋ
螉 *qloːŋ
蓊 *qloːŋ, *qloːŋʔ
嗡 *qloːŋ
滃 *qloːŋʔ
暡 *qloːŋʔ
勜 *qloːŋʔ
塕 *qloːŋʔ
瓮 *qloːŋs
崧 *sqʰluŋ
菘 *sqʰluŋ
硹 *sqʰluŋ
淞 *sqʰloŋ, *sɢloŋ
蜙 *sqʰloŋ
倯 *sqʰloŋ
松 *sɢloŋ
訟 *sɢloŋ, *sɢloŋs
頌 *sɢloŋs, *loŋ
忪 *kljoŋ
彸 *kljoŋ
衳 *kljoŋ
伀 *kljoŋ
妐 *kljoŋ
炂 *kljoŋ
鈆 *kljoŋ, *lon

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sɢloŋs, *loŋ): phonetic 公 (OC *kloːŋ) + semantic 頁 (“head”) – appearance. Now written 容.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note:
  • siōng - literary;
  • siòng - vernacular (俗).
Rime
Character 頌
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 似用切
Baxter zjowngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/zɨoŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/zioŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/zioŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/zuawŋH/
Li
Rong 		/zioŋH/
Wang
Li 		/zĭwoŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/zi̯woŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		sòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zung6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 頌
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		sòng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zjowngH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-oŋ-s/
English praise

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 頌
Reading # 1/2
No. 4118
Phonetic
component 		公
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		頌
Old
Chinese 		/*sɢloŋs/

Definitions

頌

  1. to laud; to acclaim; to praise; to extol
  2. ode; hymn; eulogy

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 頌
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 餘封切
Baxter yowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/juawŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ioŋ/
Wang
Li 		/jĭwoŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/i̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yóng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jung4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 頌
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		róng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yowng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(r)oŋ/
English appearance

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 頌
Reading # 2/2
No. 4128
Phonetic
component 		公
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		容
Old
Chinese 		/*loŋ/

Definitions

頌

  1. (alt. form 容) appearance; looks
  2. (alt. form 容) to tolerate; to be lenient

Compounds

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 頌 – see 穿 (“(Min) wear”).
(This character is a variant form of 穿).

Japanese

Shinjitai

頌

Kyūjitai

頌

Kanji

頌

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. eulogy

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
頌
しょう
Jinmeiyō
kan'on

Noun

頌(しょう) • (shō) 

  1. eulogy

Korean

Hanja

頌 • (song, yong) (hangeul 송, 용, revised song, yong, McCune–Reischauer song, yong, Yale song, yong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

頌: Hán Nôm readings: tụng

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