忠

See also: 中心

Translingual

Han character

忠 (radical 61 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 中心 (LP), four-corner 5033₆, composition ⿱中心)

1. loyalty, devotion, fidelity

References

• KangXi: page 377, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10353
• Dae Jaweon: page 704, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2273, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5FE0

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		忠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹
• Min Nan (POJ): tiong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: chung¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiong
    • Tâi-lô: tiong
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (忠, reconstructed)
Character (忠), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 知 (9) Final: 東 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 陟弓切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʈɨuŋ/	/ȶi̯uŋ/	/ȶiuŋ/	/ʈiuŋ/	/ʈuwŋ/	/ȶĭuŋ/	/ȶiuŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (忠, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
忠								zhōng								‹ trjuwng ›								/*truŋ/								loyal
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
忠					17408					中					終					0					中					/*tuŋ/

Noun

1. loyalty to superiors (confucian virtue)

Adjective

1. loyal
2. devoted
3. honest

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

忠

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ちゅう (chū)
• Kun: まごころ (magokoro)

Proper noun

忠 (hiragana ただし, romaji Tadashi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

忠 (chung) (hangeul 충, revised chung, McCune-Reischauer ch'ung, Yale chwung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忠 (trung, võ, vű)

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