常

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

常 (radical 50 巾+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月口中月 (FBRLB), four-corner 9022₇, composition ⿱⿱龸口巾)

1. common, normal, frequent, regular, often
2. a Chinese surname

References

• KangXi: page 333, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8955
• Dae Jaweon: page 639, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 744, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5E38

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		常

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cháng (chang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): siông / chhiâng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cháng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: changr
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: soeng⁴
    • Yale: sèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siông / chhiâng
    • Tâi-lô: siông / tshiâng
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɔŋ²³/, /t͡ɕʰiaŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɔŋ¹³/, /t͡ɕʰiaŋ¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (常, reconstructed)
Character (常), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 陽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 市羊切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑɨɐŋ/	/ʑi̯aŋ/	/ʑiaŋ/	/d͡ʑiɐŋ/	/d͡ʑɨaŋ/	/ʑĭaŋ/	/d͡ʑiɑŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (常, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
常								cháng								‹ dzyang ›								/*[d]aŋ/								constant
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
常					11152					尚					陽					0					常					/*djaŋ/

Definitions

Wikipedia ^en

1. common; general; normal
2. constant; invariable
3. often; frequently
4. A surname​. Chang

Compounds

Compounds

常备 常备不懈 常备军 常常 (chángcháng) 常川 常春藤 常服 常规 常规武器 常轨 常衡 常会 常见 常景 常客 常礼 常理, 常理儿 常例 常量 常绿树 常绿植物 常年 常青 常情 常人 常任 常设 常胜将军 常识 常识课 常时 常事 常数 常态 常谈 常套 常委 常温 常温层 常温动物 常务 常性 常言 常业 常用 常用对数 常住 常驻 經常 / 经常

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

常

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Etymology

tokotopa → tokotoɸa → tokotowa.

Readings

• Goon: じょう (jō)
• Kan’on: しょう (shō) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: つね (tsune), とこ (toko), つねに (tsuneni)

Noun

常 (hiragana とこ, romaji toko)

1. eternal

Derived terms

• 常春 (tokoharu)
• 常夏 (tokonatsu)
• 常秋 (tokoaki)
• 常冬 (tokofuyu)
• 常乙女 (tokootome)
• 常し (tokoshi)
• 常しえ (tokoshie)
• 常つ国 (toko tsu kuni)
• 常闇 (tokoyami)
• 常世 (tokoyo)
• 常葉 (tokowa)

Noun

常 (hiragana とことわ, romaji tokotowa, historical hiragana とことは)

1. permanence

Noun

常 (hiragana とことば, romaji tokotoba)

1. permanence

Noun

常 (hiragana つね, romaji tsune)

1. always

Derived terms

• 常に (tsune ni)

Noun

常 (hiragana きた, romaji kita)

1. a unit used to measure the length of cloth
2. a unit for measuring the area of a field

Noun

常 (hiragana きだ, romaji kida)

1. a unit used to measure the length of cloth
2. a unit for measuring the area of a field

Compounds

• 常温
• 常時
• 常識
• 常習
• 常人
• 常体
• 常態
• 常任
• 常務
• 常務取締役
• 常夏
• 異常
• 尋常
• 通常

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Korean

Hanja

常 (sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

常 (thường, sàn)

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