叢

See also: 丛

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 丵 + phonetic 取

Han character

叢 (radical 29 又+16, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿金廿水 (TCTE), four-corner 3214₇, composition ⿱丵取)

1. bush, shrub
2. thicket
3. collection

References

• KangXi: page 167, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3220
• Dae Jaweon: page 379, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 402, character 15
• Unihan data for U+53E2

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Chinese

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trad.		叢
simp.		丛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cóng (cong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'ung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsongr
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cung⁴
    • Yale: chùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (叢, reconstructed)
Character (叢), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 從 (15) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 徂紅切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡zuŋ/	/d͡zʱuŋ/	/d͡zuŋ/	/d͡zuŋ/	/d͡zəwŋ/	/d͡zuŋ/	/d͡zuŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (叢, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
叢								cóng								‹ dzuwng ›								/*dzˤoŋ/								collect; thicket
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
叢					10668					取					東					0					叢					/*zloːŋ/

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Japanese

Kanji

叢

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: くさむら (kusamura), むらがる (muragaru)

Noun

叢 (hiragana くさむら, romaji kusamura)

1. clump of bushes, thicket

Alternative forms

• 草叢
• 草むら

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Korean

Hanja

叢 (chong) (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

叢 (tùng, tòng)

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