宗

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 (“house”) + 示 (“worship”) – house of worship.

Han character

宗 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一一火 (JMMF), four-corner 3090₁, composition ⿱宀示)

1. lineage, ancestry
2. ancestor, clan
3. numerary adjunct for legal case

References

• KangXi: page 283, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7106
• Dae Jaweon: page 557, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 917, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5B97

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Cantonese

Hanzi

宗 (Yale jung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

宗 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: シュウ (shū), ソウ (sō)
• Kun: むね (mune), たっとぶ (tattobu)

Compounds

• 宗派 (しゅうは, shūha, “religious sect”)
• 宗教 (しゅうきょう, shūkyō, “religion”)

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Korean

Hanja

宗 (hangeul 종, revised jong, McCune-Reischauer chong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

宗 (pinyin zōng (zong1), Wade-Giles tsung¹)

Compounds

• 宗祠
• 宗法
• 宗匠
• 宗教
• 宗庙
• 宗派
• 宗谱
• 宗师
• 宗族
• 宗旨

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Vietnamese

Han character

宗 (tông, tong, tôn, tung)