村

See also: 材, 付, and 邨

村	U+6751, 村 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6751

← 材
[U+6750]

CJK Unified Ideographs

杒 →
[U+6752]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

𠴘𢚳

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.		村
alternative forms		邨

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 村
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
村	*sʰuːn
忖	*sʰuːnʔ
刌	*sʰuːnʔ
寸	*sʰuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰuːn): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 寸 (OC *sʰuːns).

Pronunciation[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cūn (cun¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhûn
Min Dong (BUC): chŏng
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chhun / chhoan / chhng

(Teochew, Peng'im): ceng¹
Wu (Wiktionary): ¹tshen

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cun
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻun¹
  - Yale: tswūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuen
  - Palladius: цунь (cunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cūnr
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cunr
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻun¹-ʼrh
  - Yale: tswūnr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuel
  - Palladius: цуnр (cunr)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯əɻ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cyun¹
  - Yale: chyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qun¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰyːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhûn
  - Hakka Romanization System: cun´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cun¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰun²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhun
  - Tâi-lô: tshun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhwn
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰun³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan
  - Tâi-lô: tshuan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhoafn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuan³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhng
  - Tâi-lô: tshng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhngf
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍³³/

Note:

chhun - literary;
chhoan/chhng - vernacular.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: ceng¹
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshṳng
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɯŋ³³/

Wu

(Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ¹tshen
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰəɲ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰuən/

Rime
Character	村
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	此尊切
Baxter	tshwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuən/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuon/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwən/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuən/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyun¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰuːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	村
Reading #	1/1
No.	1910
Phonetic component	寸
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	村
Old Chinese	/*sʰuːn/

Definitions[edit]

村

village; hamlet (Classifier: 條／条 c)
農村／农村 ― nóngcūn ― rural area, village, countryside

鄉村／乡村 ― xiāngcūn ― rural area, village, countryside
(especially Hong Kong) housing estate
(attributive) rustic; boorish; uncouth; vulgar
(Beijing) to scold (clarification of this definition is needed)
rural village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)

Usage notes[edit]

For the second sense, this word is usually written as 邨.

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 村

三家村
唐村 (Tángcūn)
地球村 (dìqiúcūn)
大村 (dàcūn)
孟村 (Mèngcūn)
安村 (Āncūn)
小村 (Xiǎocūn)
山村 (shāncūn)
度假村 (dùjiàcūn)
撒村
文化村
杏花村 (xìnghuācūn)
村人 (cūnrén)
村俗
村塾
村墟
村夫 (cūnfū)
村夫俗子
村夫子
村夫野老
村姑 (cūngū)
村子 (cūnzi)
村容 (cūnróng)
村居野店
村校
村歌
村民 (cūnmín)
村沙
村牛
村疃
村筋俗骨

村老子
村落 (cūnluò)
村虔
村貌 (cūnmào)
村路歧
村郎
村野 (cūnyě)
村雨
樟村坪 (Zhāngcūnpíng)
眷村 (juàncūn)
翠亨村
自然村 (zìráncūn)
荒村 (huāngcūn)
集村
高村 (Gāocūn)
村里
丁村遺址／丁村遗址
中興新村／中兴新村
乾村沙／干村沙
千村萬落／千村万落
圍村／围村 (wéicūn)
專業村／专业村
尋村轉疃／寻村转疃
村務／村务 (cūnwù)
村務酒／村务酒
村塢／村坞 (cūnwù)
村天樂／村天乐
村婦／村妇
村學／村学
村學究／村学究

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

村

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

village

Readings[edit]

Go-on: そん (son, Jōyō)
Kan-on: そん (son, Jōyō)
Kun: むら (mura, 村, Jōyō)
Nanori: え (e); むた (muta); ら (ra)

Compounds[edit]

村(そん)落(らく) (sonraku, “village, hamlet”)

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term
村
むら Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Definitions[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of 村 – see the following entry.

【むら】	[noun] village (a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town) Alternative spellings 村, 𨛗

(This term, 村, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

村 (eumhun 마을 촌 (ma'eul chon))

Hanja form^? of 촌 (“village”).

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

村: Hán Nôm readings: thôn, thon, thun, chon, chôn, thuôn, thuốn, xóm

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Derived terms[edit]

村

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Pronunciation[edit]

Definitions[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

See also[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Definitions[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

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