舂

See also: 㫪 and 春

舂 U+8202, 舂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8202 ← 舁 [U+8201] CJK Unified Ideographs 舃 → [U+8203]

Translingual

Han character

舂 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手大竹難 (QKHX), four-corner 5077₇, composition ⿱𡗗臼)

Usage notes

• This character is not to be confused with 春 (U+6625) which is visually similar but unrelated.

Derived characters

• 𠌴, 𠽅, 𢠅, 摏, 𣻛, 樁, 𥊎, 䄝, 𥡟, 𧐍, 𧜧, 蹖, 𩥫, 𪄻, 㦼, 䚎, 𪅖, 𬸥, 𩮱, 憃, 𦦜, 𧢆, 𦦱, 𪆊, 𦦺, 𦦾, 𫴛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1003, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30195
• Dae Jaweon: page 1460, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3039, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8202

Chinese

simp. and trad.		舂
alternative forms		㫪 nonclassical

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 舂
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
樁	*ʔr'oːŋ
憃	*hr'oːŋ, *l̥ʰoŋs, *hljoŋ
舂	*hljoŋ
摏	*hljoŋ
蹖	*hljoŋ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 廾 (“both hands”) + 午 (“pestle”) + 臼 (“mortar”) – using both hands to pound with a mortar and pestle. See also the top component of 秦.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chōng (chong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chûng

  (Meixian, Guangdong): zung¹

• Northern Min (KCR): ché̤ng
• Eastern Min (BUC): cṳ̆ng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): cheng / chiong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zêng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chong
    • Wade–Giles: chʻung¹
    • Yale: chūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chong
    • Palladius: чун (čun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: zung^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡suŋ²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʊŋ⁴⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ché̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœyŋ⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cṳ̆ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cheng / chiong
    • Tâi-lô: tsing / tsiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zefng, ciofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɪŋ³³/, /t͡siɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/, /t͡siɔŋ⁴⁴/

Note:

• cheng - vernacular;
• chiong - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zêng¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tseng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡seŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: syowng

Rime
Character	舂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	書容切
Baxter	syowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuawŋ/
Li Rong	/ɕioŋ/
Wang Li	/ɕĭwoŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɕi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-toŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljoŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	舂
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chōng
Middle Chinese	‹ syowng ›
Old Chinese	/*s-toŋ/
English	hull grain, beat (v.) stick for beating (n.)
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	舂
Reading #	1/1
No.	1498
Phonetic component	舂
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	舂
Old Chinese	/*hljoŋ/

Definitions

舂

1. to pound on grains in a mortar in order to husk them
2. (Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min, Shanghainese) to hit with a fist; to punch
3. (Cantonese) to fall (especially head down)

Compounds

• 痟狗舂墓壙／痟狗舂墓圹 (siáu káu cheng bōng-khòng) (Min Nan)
• 盲舂舂 (maang⁴ zung¹ zung¹) (Cantonese)
• 舂容
• 舂眼瞓／舂眼𰥛 (zung¹ ngaan⁵ fan³) (Cantonese)
• 舂碓
• 舂米 (chōngmǐ)
• 舂鉏／舂锄
• 舂陵
• 霜舂雨薪

 

References

• “舂”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

舂

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to grind in a mortar

Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)
• Kun: うすずく (usuzuku, 舂く)^{←うすづく (usuduku, 舂く, historical)}、うすつく (usutsuku, 舂く)

Korean

Hanja

舂 • (yong, song, chang) (hangeul 용, 송, 창, revised yong, song, chang, McCune–Reischauer yong, song, ch'ang, Yale yong, song, chang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

舂: Hán Nôm readings: thung

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References

• Nom Foundation