村

See also: 材 and 邨

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		村
alternative forms		邨

Glyph origin

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／形声, OC *sʰuːn) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 寸 (OC *sʰuːns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cūn (cun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhûn
• Eastern Min (BUC): chŏng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhun / chhoan / chhng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ceng¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹tshen

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• 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: цуньр (cunʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯əɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cyun¹
    • Yale: chyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhûn
    • Hakka Romanization System: cun´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cun¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰun²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (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
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹tshen
    • MiniDict: tshen^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tshen
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰən⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: tshwon

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

(deprecated template usage) 村

1. village; hamlet
2. (especially Hong Kong) housing estate

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

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

3. (attributive) rustic; boorish; uncouth; vulgar
4. (Beijing Mandarin) to scold (clarification of this definition is needed)
5. rural village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)

See also

• 城 (chéng)

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

村

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. village

Readings

• 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

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

Etymology

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

Cognate with 群 (mura, “gathering”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

村(むら) • (mura) 

1. a village (a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town)
   • 2015 September 19, “[竜](りゅう)[角](かく)の[狩](しゅ)[猟](りょう)[者](しゃ) [Dragon Horn Hunter]”, in EXTRA PACK 2015, Konami:

     疫(えき)病(びょう)に苦(くる)しむ故(こ)郷(きょう)の村(むら)を救(すく)うため、霊(れい)薬(やく)の原(げん)料(りょう)となるドラゴンの角(つの)を乱(らん)獲(かく)する女(おんな)戦(せん)士(し)。その村(むら)はすでに、棲(す)み処(か)を追(お)われたドラゴンたちによって踏(ふ)み荒(あ)らされ、焼(や)き尽(つ)くされてしまった事(こと)を、彼(かの)女(じょ)はまだ知(し)らない・・・。

     Ekibyō ni kurushimu kokyō no mura o sukū tame, reiyaku no genryō to naru doragon no tsuno o rankakusuru onnasenshi. Sono mura wa sude ni, sumika o owareta doragon-tachi ni yotte fumiarasare, yakitsukusarete shimatta koto o, kanojo wa mada shiranai .

     A female warrior who was on the hunt for dragon horns, to make a medicine for her home village, which was suffering from a plague. Unbeknownst to her, those displaced dragons went on to lay waste and burn down her village….

See also

• 里(さと) (sato)

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Korean

Hanja

村 • (chon)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 촌 (McCune–Reischauer: ch'on, Yale: chon)
  • Name (hangeul): 마을
    (revised: maeul, McCune–Reischauer: maŭl, Yale: maul)

1. Hanja form^? of 촌 (“village”).

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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