常

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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

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

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

常 (Yale seung4)

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

常 (hiragana とこ, romaji toko)

  1. eternal

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[edit] Etymology

tokotopa > tokotoɸa > tokotowa.

[edit] Noun

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

  1. permanence

[edit] Noun

常 (hiragana とことば, romaji tokotoba)

  1. permanence

[edit] Noun

常 (hiragana つね, romaji tsune)

  1. always

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Kanji

常 (grade 5 kanji)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

[edit] Mandarin

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[edit] Hanzi

常 (pinyin cháng (chang2), Wade-Giles ch'ang2)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

常 (*zhiɑng)

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

常 (thường, sàn)

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