宗

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] 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

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

宗 (Yale jung1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

宗 (grade 6 kanji)

[edit] Readings

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

[edit] Compounds

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

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

宗 (tông, tong, tôn, tung)