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U+5531, 唱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5531

[U+5530]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5532]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
11 strokes
Stroke order

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 30, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口日日 (RAA), four-corner 66060, composition )

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 193, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3765
  • Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 640, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5531

Chinese[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *tʰjaŋs): semantic + phonetic (OC *tʰjaŋ).

Etymology 1[edit]

simp. and trad.

Same word as (OC *tʰjaŋs, “to lead; to advocate”). Schuessler (2007), reconstructing the Old Chinese minimally as *k-hlaŋh, considers it to be a Sino-Tibetan word; compare Burmese အချင်း (a.hkyang:, song, poem) and perhaps also Proto-Bodo-Garo *lʔəŋ (to sing).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note: Erhuayin chiefly for noun sense.
Note:
  • chhiùⁿ/chhiòⁿ/chhiò/chhiàuⁿ - vernacular;
  • chhiàng, chhiòng - literary.
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cio3 / ciê3 / ciang3
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiò / tshiè / tshiàng
    • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰio²¹³/, /t͡ɕʰie²¹³/, /t͡ɕʰiaŋ²¹³/
Note:
  • cio3/ciê3 - vernacular (ciê3 - Chaozhou);
  • ciang3 - literary.
  • Wu
  • Xiang

    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location
    Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵¹/
    Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ⁵³/
    Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ⁵³/
    /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵³/
    Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ²¹/
    Qingdao /tʃʰaŋ⁴²/
    Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ³¹²/
    Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ⁴⁴/
    Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰɔ̃²¹³/
    Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ¹³/
    Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰɑ̃¹³/
    Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ²¹³/
    Wuhan /t͡sʰaŋ³⁵/
    Chengdu /t͡sʰaŋ¹³/
    Guiyang /t͡sʰaŋ²¹³/
    Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰã̠²¹²/
    Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ⁴⁴/
    Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰɑ̃⁵³/
    Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰɒ̃⁴⁵/
    Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
    Hohhot /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵⁵/
    Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰɑ̃³⁵/
    Suzhou /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵¹³/
    Hangzhou /t͡sʰɑŋ⁴⁴⁵/
    Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰi⁴²/
    Hui Shexian /t͡ɕia³²⁴/
    Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiau⁴²/
    Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂʰan⁵⁵/
    Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʰɔn⁵⁵/
    Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɔŋ²¹³/
    Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰoŋ⁵³/
    Taoyuan /tʃʰoŋ⁵⁵/
    Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰœŋ³³/
    Nanning /t͡sʰœŋ³³/
    Hong Kong /t͡sʰœŋ³³/
    Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sʰiɔŋ²¹/
    /t͡sʰiũ²¹/
    Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰuɔŋ²¹²/
    Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰiɔŋ³³/
    Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sʰiaŋ²¹³/
    /t͡sʰio²¹³/
    Haikou (Hainanese) /saŋ³⁵/
    /sio³⁵/

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial () (24)
    Final () (105)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () III
    Fanqie
    Baxter tsyhangH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋH/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /t͡ɕʰiɐŋH/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /t͡ɕʰiɑŋH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /cʰɨaŋH/
    Li
    Rong
    /t͡ɕʰiaŋH/
    Wang
    Li
    /t͡ɕʰĭaŋH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren
    /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    chàng
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    coeng3
    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    chàng
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ tsyhangH ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*mə-tʰaŋ-s/
    English to lead (in singing)

    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
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 1257
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*tʰjaŋs/

    Definitions[edit]

    1. (literary) to lead in singing
    2. to sing
        ―  chàng  ―  to sing a song
    3. to call; to cry out; to chant
    4. song
    5. (Cantonese) to spread (usually negative) information or rumours
    6. (literary) to advocate; to initiate
    7. a surname: Chang
    Synonyms[edit]
    • (song):
    Compounds[edit]

    Etymology 2[edit]

    simp. and trad.
    alternative forms

    Borrowed from English change.

    Pronunciation[edit]


    Definitions[edit]

    1. (Cantonese) to exchange (currency, money, cash, etc.)
    Compounds[edit]

    References[edit]

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. chant
    2. choir

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    (eumhun 부를 (bureul chang))

    1. Hanja form? of (to chant).

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    : Hán Nôm readings: xướng, xẳng, xang, sướng, xắng, xẵng

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