衷

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 衣 (“clothes”) + phonetic 中

Han character

衷 (radical 145 衣+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十中竹女 (JLHV), 卜中竹女 (YLHV), four-corner 5073₂)

1. heart, from bottom of one's heart

References

• KangXi: page 1112, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34139
• Dae Jaweon: page 1578, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3076, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8877

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Cantonese

Hanzi

衷 (Yale chung1, jung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

衷 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

衷 (pinyin zhōng (zhong1), zhòng (zhong4), Wade-Giles chung¹, chung⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

衷 (trung)