冢

See also: 塚, 家, and 冡

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

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

1. burial mound, mausoleum
2. grand

Derived terms

• 塚

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		冢

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǒng (zhong³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cung²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ):
• Min Nan (POJ): thióng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chung³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: joong
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cung²
    • Yale: chúng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsung²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thióng
    • Tâi-lô: thióng
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiɔŋ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (冢, reconstructed)
Character (冢), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 知 (9) Final: 鍾 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 知隴切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʈɨoŋX/	/ȶi̯woŋX/	/ȶioŋX/	/ʈioŋX/	/ʈuawŋX/	/ȶĭwoŋX/	/ȶioŋX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (冢, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
冢								zhǒng								‹ trjowngX ›								/*[t]roŋʔ (or *[t]<r>oŋʔ ?)/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
冢					1616					豖					東					0					冢					/*toŋʔ/

Definitions

冢

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Japanese

Kanji

冢

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ちょう (chō), ちゅ (chu)
• Kun: つか (tsuka), おか (oka), やしろ (yashiro)

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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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