創

See also: 创 and 剙

Translingual

Han character

創 (radical 18 刀+10, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人口中弓 (ORLN), four-corner 8260₀, composition ⿰倉刂)

1. establish, create
2. knife cut

References

• KangXi: page 143, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2127
• Dae Jaweon: page 323, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 350, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5275

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Chinese

		-
trad.		創
simp.		创

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuàng (chuang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cong³
• Min Nan (POJ): chhòng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: chuàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'uang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanq
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cong³
    • Yale: chong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsong³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhòng
    • Tâi-lô: tshòng
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰɔŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰɔŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (創, reconstructed)
Character (創), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 初 (19) Final: 陽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 初良切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ʃʰɨɐŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯aŋ/	/t͡ʃʰiaŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂʰiɐŋ/	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨaŋ/	/t͡ʃʰĭaŋ/	/t͡ʃʰiɑŋ/
Character (創), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 初 (19) Final: 陽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 初亮切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ʃʰɨɐŋH/	/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯aŋH/	/t͡ʃʰiaŋH/	/ʈ͡ʂʰiɐŋH/	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨaŋH/	/t͡ʃʰĭaŋH/	/t͡ʃʰiɑŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (創, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
創								chuāng								‹ tsrhjang ›								/*[tsʰ]raŋ/								wound (v.)
創								chuàng								‹ tsrhjangH ›								/*[tsʰ]raŋ-s/								begin
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
創					1139					倉					陽					0					創					/*sʰraŋ/
創					1143					倉					陽					0					剏					/*sʰraŋs/

Compounds

• 創造

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Japanese

Kanji

創

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. genesis
2. wound
3. injury
4. hurt
5. start
6. originate

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: きず (kizu), はじめる (hajimeru), つくる (tsukuru)

Compounds

• 創作 (sousaku) create
• 創始 (soushi) initiating
• 創造 (souzou) creation
• 創世記 (souseiki) Genesis

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Korean

Hanja

創 (chang) (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

創 (sáng, sang)

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