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Definition 2024


See also: 中心

Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 中心 (LP), four-corner 50336, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 377, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10353
  • Dae Jaweon: page 704, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2273, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5FE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tuŋ, *tuŋs
*tuŋ
*tuŋ, *tuŋs
*tʰuŋ
*tʰuŋ
*tʰuŋ, *duŋ, *tjoŋ
*duŋ
*duŋ
*duŋ
*duŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuŋ) : phonetic  (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs) + semantic  (heart).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuwŋ/
Li
Rong
/ȶiuŋ/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjuwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*truŋ/
English loyal

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17408
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tuŋ/

Definitions

  1. loyal; devoted; faithful
  2. loyalty; devotion; fidelity

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. loyalty

Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana ただし, romaji Tadashi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(chung) (hangeul , revised chung, McCune-Reischauer ch'ung, Yale chwung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trung, , vű)

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