村

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 寸 + semantic 木 (“hand”) – to strike with the hand, to spank or scold.

Han character

村 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木木戈 (DDI), four-corner 4490₀, composition ⿰木寸)

References

• KangXi: page 511, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14464
• Dae Jaweon: page 896, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6751

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		村

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cūn (cun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhûn
• Min Nan (POJ): chhoan
• Wu (WT Romanisation): tshen (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'un¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuen
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun¹
    • Yale: chyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhûn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡sʰun²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan
    • Tâi-lô: tshuan
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuan³⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: tshen (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰəɲ⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (村, reconstructed)
Character (村), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 魂 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 此尊切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰuən/	/t͡sʰuən/	/t͡sʰuən/	/t͡sʰuon/	/t͡sʰwən/	/t͡sʰuən/	/t͡sʰuən/

Noun

村

1. village, hamlet

   農村 / 农村  ―  nóngcūn  ―  rural area, village, countryside

   鄉村 / 乡村  ―  xiāngcūn  ―  rural area, village, countryside

See also

• 城 (chéng)

Adjective

村

1. rustic, boorish, uncouth, vulgar (attributive)

Verb

村

1. (archaic) scold

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Japanese

Kanji

村

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. village

Readings

• Goon: そん (son)
• Kan’on: そん (son)
• Kun: むら (mura)

Usage notes

Frequently found as part of a surname, with reading むら (mura), as in 村上 (むらかみ, Murakami).

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term

村

むら Grade: 1

kun'yomi

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) むら​ [mùráꜜ] (Odaka - [o])
• IPA^(key): [mɯᵝɾ̠a̠]

Noun

村 (hiragana むら, romaji mura)

1. village

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Korean

Hanja

村 (chon)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 촌 (McCune-Reischauer: ch'on, Yale: chon)

• Name (hangeul): 마을()

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Vietnamese

Han character

村 (thôn, thon, thun, chon, chôn, thuôn, thuốn, xóm)

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