宗

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Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Han character[edit]

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. school, sect
  4. numerary adjunct for legal case

References[edit]

  • 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

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

宗 (Jyutping zung1, Yale jung1)

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
宗

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

  1. fundamental knowledge
  2. root, ancestry

Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

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

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Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

宗 (tông, tong, tôn, tung)

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