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舂

Translingual

Han character

舂 (radical 134 臼+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手大竹X (QKHX), four-corner 5077₇, composition ⿱𡗗臼)

grind in a mortar

References

KangXi: page 1003, character 20

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30195

Dae Jaweon: page 1460, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3039, character 4

Unihan data for U+8202

Chinese

simp. and trad.		舂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 舂
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (舂) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
樁	*ʔr'oːŋ
憃	hr'oːŋ, l̥ʰoŋs, *hljoŋ
舂	*hljoŋ
摏	*hljoŋ
蹖	*hljoŋ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): chōng (chong¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹
Min Nan (POJ): cheng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: chōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥ
  - Wade-Giles: ch'ung¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chong
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zung¹
  - Yale: jūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng
  - Tâi-lô: tsing
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zefng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /ɕɨoŋ/▼

Rime
Character	舂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	書容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuawŋ/
Li Rong	/ɕioŋ/
Wang Li	/ɕĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shōng

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*s-toŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*hljoŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	舂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chōng
Middle Chinese	‹ syowng ›
Old Chinese	/*s-toŋ/
English	hull grain, beat (v.) stick for beating (n.)
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	舂
Reading #	1/1
No.	1498
Phonetic component	舂
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	舂
Old Chinese	/*hljoŋ/

Definitions

舂

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Compounds

舂容
舂碓

舂米 (chōngmǐ)
舂鉏／舂锄

舂陵
霜舂雨薪

Japanese

Kanji

舂

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: しゅ (shu)

Kan’on: しょう (shō)

On (unclassified): そう (sō)

Kun: うすずく (usuzuku), つく (tsuku)

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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