宗

宗 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一一火 (JMMF), four-corner 3090₁, composition ⿱宀示)

• 倧 婃 孮 徖 悰 棕 淙 猔 琮 碂 粽 綜(综) 腙 䑸 誴(𫟡) 䝋 賩 踪 錝(𫓽) 騌(骔) 鯮(𱇾) 鶎 崇 萗 鬃 崈 賨(𰷥)
• 𪞥 𠵻 𫮁 𡸶 𢃏 𢮱 𣇼 𤉳 𤙷 𥚎 𥟡 𥪗 𨲇 𬴚 𣮤 𬦓 𫐱 𪎏 𡳓 𨛱 𡩰 𡨫 𣦅 𥮵 𥚢 𡽿 𭝛

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 283, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7106
• Dae Jaweon: page 557, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 917, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5B97

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 宗姓 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Zong (surname) (English)

Historical forms of the character 宗
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 宀 (“house”) + 示 (“spirit tablet”) – temple; ancestral shrine.

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ⪤ *tsik (“to build”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “castle; fortress”), Burmese ဆောင် (hcaung, “room; chamber; hall”) (Schuessler, 2007).

an administrative division in historical Tibet

Borrowed from Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “district; province”).

宗

1. ancestral temple
2. ancestors or elders of a people
   1. One of the two suffixes of emperors' temple names.

      Coordinate term: 祖 (zǔ)

3. family

   宗法  ―  zōngfǎ  ―  patriarchal clan system

   宗周  ―  Zōngzhōu  ―  Ancestral Zhou, Clan city of Zhou (Western Zhou dynasty's capital)

   宗兄  ―  zōngxiōng  ―  elder brother

   同宗  ―  tóngzōng  ―  to be of the same clan

4. school; sect

   禪宗／禅宗  ―  chánzōng  ―  Zen

   路德宗  ―  Lùdézōng  ―  Lutheranism

5. main purpose

   宗旨  ―  zōngzhǐ  ―  aim

   萬變不離其宗／万变不离其宗  ―  wàn biàn bù lí qí zōng  ―  to remain the same in essence despite all apparent changes

6. to revere; to respect; to follow

   • 孔子布衣，傳十餘世，學者宗之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     孔子布衣，传十余世，学者宗之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Kǒngzǐ bùyī, chuán shí yú shì, xuézhě zōng zhī.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

7. (historical) an administrative division in historical Tibet, equivalent to a county

   當雄宗／当雄宗  ―  Dāngxióng Zōng  ―  Damxung dzong

8. Classifier for things, sums of money, goods, etc.

   一宗款項／一宗款项  ―  yī zōng kuǎnxiàng  ―  a sum of money

   • 只是等咱們的事情過去了，早些把你們的正經事完結了，也了我一宗心事。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     只是等咱们的事情过去了，早些把你们的正经事完结了，也了我一宗心事。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber, mid-18^th century CE

     Zhǐshì děng zánmen de shìqíng guòqù le, zǎo xiē bǎ nǐmen de zhèngjīng shì wánjié le, yě liǎo wǒ yī zōng xīnshì.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

9. Classifier for cases (e.g. traffic accidents, criminal cases, medical cases, etc.).

   一宗命案 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ zung¹ ming⁶ on³   ―  a homicide

   兩宗交易／两宗交易 [Cantonese]  ―  loeng⁵ zung¹ gaau¹ jik⁶   ―  two transactions

   一宗交通意外 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   jat¹ zung¹ gaau¹ tung¹ ji³ ngoi⁶

   a traffic accident

   1000多宗流感病例 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   1000 do¹ zung¹ lau⁴ gam² beng⁶ lai⁶

   over 1000 cases of influenza

10. a surname

    宗澤／宗泽  ―  Zōng Zé  ―  Zong Ze (Southern Song official and general)

• (ancestral temple): 祖廟／祖庙 (zǔmiào)
• (classifier for legal cases): 樁／桩 (zhuāng), 起 (qǐ)

• “宗”, 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–

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. religion; doctrine; creed
2. a place to venerate one's ancestors
3. ancestor; ancestry; clan
4. esteemed; respected
5. central idea; core principle

• Go-on: そ (so)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←そう (sou, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: むね (mune, 宗)、たっとぶ (tattobu, 宗ぶ)

• 宗(しゅう)派(は) (shūha, “religious sect”)
• 宗(しゅう)教(きょう) (shūkyō, “religion”)

宗 (eumhun 마루 종 (maru jong))

1. hanja form^? of 종 (“fundamental knowledge”)
2. hanja form^? of 종 (“root; ancestry”)
3. hanja form^? of 종 (“religion”)

• 종교 (宗敎, jonggyo, “religion”)

宗: Hán Nôm readings: tông, tong, tôn, tung

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