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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 75 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木木戈 (DDI), four-corner 44900, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 511, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14464
  • Dae Jaweon: page 896, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6751

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sʰuːn
*sʰuːnʔ
*sʰuːnʔ
*sʰuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰuːn) : phonetic  (OC *sʰuːns) + semantic  (hand) – to strike with the hand, to spank or scold.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰuən/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰuon/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰwən/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰuən/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰuən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cūn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 1910
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰuːn/

Definitions

  1. village; hamlet
    /    nóngcūn   rural area, village, countryside
    /    xiāngcūn   rural area, village, countryside
  2. (attributive) rustic; boorish; uncouth; vulgar
  3. (archaic) to scold

See also

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. village

Readings

Usage notes

Frequently found as part of a surname, with reading むら (mura), as in 村上 (むらかみ) (Murakami).

Compounds

Kanji in this term
むら
Grade: 1
kun'yomi

Etymology

Cognate with (mura, gathering).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana むら, romaji mura)

  1. village

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(chon)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (McCune-Reischauer: ch'on, Yale: chon)
  • Name (hangeul): 마을 (revised: maeul, McCune-Reischauer: maŭl, Yale: maul)
  1. Hanja form? of , “village”.

Vietnamese

Han character

(thôn, thon, thun, chon, chôn, thuôn, thuốn, xóm)

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