匆

See also: 悤, 怱, 匁, and 勿

匆 U+5306, 匆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5306 ← 包 [U+5305] CJK Unified Ideographs 匇 → [U+5307]

匆 U+2F82A, 匆 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F82A ← 包 [U+2F829] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 北 → [U+2F82B]

Translingual

Alternative forms

A CJK compatibility ideograph (U+2F82A) exists for an alternative form with 乀 stroke that extends across 勿 beyond the right side of 勹.

Han character

匆 (Kangxi radical 20, 勹+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心大大 (PKK), four-corner 2745₀, composition ⿻勿丶(U+5306) or ⿻勿乀(U+2F82A))

Derived characters

• 𭂉, 𠰯, 𢫍, 𬖕, 𦓭, 𨠞, 茐, 𡧴, 𩂜, 怱, 䖏, 𭙧, 𠁅, 𠱱, 𭞥, 𭄏, 𢝰, 𦷐

Usage notes

This character is not found in the Kangxi dictionary. It is a reduction of 怱 which was originally derived from 悤.

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 151, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2511
• Dae Jaweon: page 340, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 257, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5306

• Unihan data for U+2F82A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		匆
alternative forms		悤 original form 怱 variant of 悤 忩 unorthodox variant of 悤 匇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (囱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
牎	*sʰroːŋ
窗	*sʰroːŋ
窓	*sʰroːŋ
囱	*sʰroːŋ, *sʰloːŋ
總	*ʔsloːŋʔ
熜	*ʔsloːŋʔ
傯	*ʔsloːŋʔ
緫	*ʔsloːŋʔ
揔	*ʔsloːŋʔ
偬	*ʔsloːŋʔ, *ʔsloːŋs
囪	*sʰloːŋ
璁	*sʰloːŋ
驄	*sʰloːŋ
蔥	*sʰloːŋ
匆	*sʰloːŋ
怱	*sʰloːŋ
葱	*sʰloːŋ
楤	*sʰloːŋ
聦	*sʰloːŋ
繱	*sʰloːŋ
騘	*sʰloːŋ
鍯	*sʰloːŋ
聰	*sʰloːŋ
愡	*sʰloːŋs
檧	*sloːŋ, *sloːŋʔ
憽	*sloːŋ
幒	*sʰloŋʔ, *kjoŋ

Unrelated to 勿. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cōng (cong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cung¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): corng¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhong / chhang

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cong¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tshon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cong
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻung¹
    • Yale: tsūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsong
    • Palladius: цун (cun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cung¹
    • Yale: chūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: corng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɒŋ⁵³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhong
    • Tâi-lô: tshong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhofng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhang
    • Tâi-lô: tshang
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhafng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰaŋ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰaŋ⁴⁴/

Note:

• chhong - literary;
• chhang - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: cong¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshong
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰoŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tshon
    • MiniDict: tshon^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tshon
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰoŋ⁵³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰloːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	匆
Reading #	1/1
No.	1822
Phonetic component	囱
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	怱
Old Chinese	/*sʰloːŋ/
Notes	囪隸變，今義廣韻集韻只作怱

Definitions

匆

1. hasty; hurried

Compounds

• 來去匆匆 / 来去匆匆
• 匆促 (cōngcù)
• 匆匆 (cōngcōng)
• 匆匆忙忙 (cōngcōngmángmáng)
• 匆忙 (cōngmáng)
• 匆猝 (cōngcù)
• 匆遽
• 興匆匆 / 兴匆匆
• 行色匆匆 (xíngsècōngcōng)

References

• “匆”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “匆”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 39.

Japanese

Kanji

匆

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そう (sō)
• Kun: いそがしい (isogashii, 匆しい)

Korean

Hanja

匆 (eum 총 (chong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

匆: Hán Nôm readings: thông

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References

• Nom Foundation