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U+9418, 鐘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9418

[U+9417]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9419]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 167, +12, 20 strokes, cangjie input 金卜廿土 (CYTG), four-corner 80114, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1323, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40902
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1822, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4258, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9418

Chinese

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alternative forms

 
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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
       

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tjoŋ, *tjoŋ) : semantic + phonetic (OC *doːŋ). It indicates a bell, including a bronze large bell used in rituals in ancient China.

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • cheng - vernacular;
  • chiong - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂuŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡suŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂuŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂuŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fəŋ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂuə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂuŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /p͡fə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂuŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂoŋ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂoŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂəŋ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡soŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡soŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕyɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /t͡san¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂoŋ³³/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂən³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡suŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃuŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Nanning /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡siɔŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡siŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡syŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sœyŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡seŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /toŋ²³/
/t͡soŋ²³/
/t͡siaŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (7)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tsyowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕioŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕioŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cuawŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕioŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭwoŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯woŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zung1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyowng ›
Old
Chinese
/*toŋ/
English bell

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17465 17467
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjoŋ/ /*tjoŋ/

Definitions

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  1. bell (Classifier: ; )
    小時一次 [MSC, trad.]
    小时一次 [MSC, simp.]
    Nà ge zhōng měi xiǎoshí xiǎng yīcì. [Pinyin]
    That bell rings once every hour.
  2. clock (Classifier: ; )
    所以校準 [MSC, trad.]
    所以校准 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè ge zhōng kuài le, suǒyǐ wǒ bǎ tā jiàozhǔn le. [Pinyin]
    The clock was fast so I corrected it.
  3. time measured in hours and minutes
      ―  diǎnzhōng  ―  o'clock
      ―  fēnzhōng  ―  minute
      ―  miǎozhōng  ―  second
  4. (Cantonese) hour (Classifier: ; ; )
    十五分鐘 [Cantonese, trad.]
    十五分钟 [Cantonese, simp.]
    jat1 go3 zung1 ling4 sap6 ng5 fan1 zung1 [Jyutping]
    one hour and fifteen minutes
    [Cantonese]  ―  dyun3 zung1 gai3 [Jyutping]  ―  to be counted in hours
  5. (Cantonese, in general) time
    [Cantonese]  ―  gau3 zung1 [Jyutping]  ―  it's time
    揼波揼波 [Cantonese]  ―  dam6 bo1 zung1 [Jyutping]  ―  to stall for time
  6. (Cantonese, colloquial) (the length or time period of) sexual services, such as that of prostitutes
    [Cantonese]  ―  daan6 zung1 [Jyutping]  ―  to reject a prostitute
    [Cantonese]  ―  lok6 zung1 [Jyutping]  ―  (of a sexual service) to end
  7. (historical) metal ceremonial percussion instrument hung from a rack and struck with a mallet
  8. Alternative form of  / (zhōng, unit of capacity)
  9. a surname

Usage notes

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  • The surname ( (zhōng)) is different from the surname (zhōng).

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (しょう) (shō)
  • Korean: 종(鐘) (jong)

Others

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: しゅ (shu)
  • Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: かね (kane, , Jōyō)

Compounds

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
かね
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(かね) (kane

  1. bell

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
しょう
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(しょう) (shō

  1. bell
Derived terms
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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

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(eumhun 쇠북 (soebuk jong))

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: chung, chuông

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