舂
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Translingual
Han character
舂 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手大竹難 (QKHX), four-corner 50777, composition ⿱𡗗臼)
Usage notes
- This character is not to be confused with 春 (
U+6625) which is visually similar but unrelated.
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1003, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30195
- Dae Jaweon: page 1460, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3039, character 4
- Unihan data for U+8202
Chinese
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舂 | |
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| alternative forms | 㫪 nonclassical | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 舂 | |||
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 廾 (“both hands”) + 午 (“pestle”) + 臼 (“mortar”) – using both hands to pound with a mortar and pestle. See also the top component of 秦.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zung1
- Hakka
- Northern Min (KCR): ché̤ng
- Eastern Min (BUC): cṳ̆ng
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥ
- Tongyong Pinyin: chong
- Wade–Giles: chʻung1
- Yale: chūng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chong
- Palladius: чун (čun)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: zung1
- Yale: jūng
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzung1
- Guangdong Romanization: zung1
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chûng
- Hakka Romanization System: zungˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: zung1
- Sinological IPA: /t͡suŋ²⁴/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ché̤ng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰœyŋ⁵⁴/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: cṳ̆ng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡syŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
Note:
- cheng - vernacular;
- chiong - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: zêng1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tseng
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡seŋ³³/
- Middle Chinese: syowng
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-toŋ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*hljoŋ/
Definitions
舂
- to pound on grains in a mortar in order to husk them
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min, Shanghainese) to hit with a fist; to punch
- (Cantonese) to fall (especially head down)
Compounds
References
- “舂”, 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–
Japanese
Kanji
舂
Readings
- Go-on: しゅ (shu)
- Kan-on: しょう (shō)
- Kun: うすずく (usuzuku, 舂く)←うすづく (usuduku, 舂く, historical)、うすつく (usutsuku, 舂く)
Korean
Hanja
舂 • (yong, song, chang) (hangeul 용, 송, 창, revised yong, song, chang, McCune–Reischauer yong, song, ch'ang, Yale yong, song, chang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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