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冢

冢

冢 U+51A2, 冢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51A2
← 冡
[U+51A1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冣 →
[U+51A3]
See also: 塚, 家, and 冡

Translingual

Han character

冢 (radical 14 冖+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月一尸人 (BMSO) or X月一尸人 (XBMSO), four-corner 37232, composition ⿱冖豖)

  1. burial mound, mausoleum
  2. grand

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 130, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1585
  • Dae Jaweon: page 293, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 304, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+51A2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 冢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (豖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冢 *toŋʔ
塚 *toŋʔ
涿 *rtoːɡ
琢 *rtoːɡ
啄 *rtoːɡ, *toːɡ
諑 *rtoːɡ
剢 *toːɡ
瘃 *toɡ
豖 *tʰoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *toŋʔ) : semantic 勹 ‎(“wrap”) + phonetic 豖 ‎(OC *tʰoɡ) – wrapped in a burial shroud. Top component now simplified to 冖.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 冢
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 鍾 (7)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 知隴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʈɨoŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈioŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȶioŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈuawŋX/
Li
Rong		 /ȶioŋX/
Wang
Li		 /ȶĭwoŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȶi̯woŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhǒng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 冢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǒng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ trjowngX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[t]roŋʔ/ (or *[t]<r>oŋʔ ?)
English tomb mound

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 冢
Reading # 1/1
No. 1616
Phonetic
component		 豖
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 冢
Old
Chinese		 /*toŋʔ/

Definitions

冢

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Compounds

  • 冢中枯骨
  • 冢嗣
  • 冢土
  • 冢墓
  • 冢婦／冢妇
  • 冢子
  • 冢宰
  • 冢息
  • 冢藏
  • 叢冢／丛冢 (cóngzhǒng)
  • 喪冢／丧冢
  • 大冢宰
  • 嶓冢 (Bōzhǒng)
  • 汲冢古文
  • 發冢／发冢
  • 筆冢／笔冢
  • 衣冠冢 (yīguānzhǒng)
  • 青冢
  • 香冢

Japanese

Kanji

冢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

冢 • ‎(chong) (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

冢 (trủng, trổng, trũng)

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