村

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 木 + semantic 寸 (“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)

1. village, hamlet
2. uncouth, vulgar
3. (archaic) scold

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

村 (jyutping cyun1, Yale chyun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

村 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. village

Readings

• 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).

Noun

村 (hiragana むら, romaji mura)

1. village

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Korean

Hanja

村
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 마을()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

村 (pinyin cūn (cun1), Wade-Giles ts'un¹)

See also

• 城 (chéng)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

村 (*tsuən)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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