存

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 才 + semantic 子

Han character

存 (radical 39 子+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 大中弓木 (KLND), four-corner 4024₇)

1. exist, live, be
2. survive
3. remain

References

• KangXi: page 278, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6943
• Dae Jaweon: page 545, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1009, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5B58

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Cantonese

Hanzi

存 (Jyutping cyun4, Yale chyun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

存

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぞん (zon)
• Kan’on: そん (son)
• Kun: たもつ (tamotsu), ある (aru), とう (tou)

Compounds

保存 (ほぞん, hozon) 存続 (そんぞく, sonzoku) 依存 (いぞん, izon) 依存症 (いぞんしょう, izonshō)

現存 (げんぞん, genzon) 共存 (きょうぞん, kyōzon) 生存 (せいぞん, seizon) 生存権 (せいぞんけん, seizonken)

残存 (ざんぞん, zanzon) 存立 (そんりつ, sonritsu) 存否 (そんぴ, sonpi) 存心 (ぞんしん, zonshin)

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Korean

Hanja

存 (jon) (hangeul 존, revised jon, McCune-Reischauer chon)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

存 (Pinyin cún (cun2), Wade-Giles ts'un²)

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Verb

存 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin cún)

1. to exist

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Vietnamese

Han character

存 (tồn, dòn, sòn, ròn, tòn)

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