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U+5531, 唱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5531

[U+5530]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5532]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口日日 (RAA), four-corner 66060, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 193, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3765
  • Dae Jaweon: page 414, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 640, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5531
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Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 唱, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰjaŋs): semantic + phonetic (OC *tʰjaŋ).

Etymology 1

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Same word as (OC *tʰjaŋs, “to lead; to advocate”). Schuessler (2007), reconstructing the Old Chinese minimally as *k-hlaŋh, considers it to be a Sino-Tibetan word; compare Burmese အချင်း (a.hkyang:, song, poem) and perhaps also Proto-Bodo-Garo *lʔəŋ (to sing).

Pronunciation


Note: Erhuayin chiefly for noun sense.
Note:
  • cieo4/ciunn4 - vernacular;
  • cyorng4/cyoeng4 - literary.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. (literary) to lead in singing
  2. to sing
       chàng   to sing a song
  3. to call; to cry out; to chant
  4. song
  5. (Cantonese) to spread (usually negative) information or rumours
  6. (literary) to advocate; to initiate
  7. a surname, Chang
Synonyms
  • (song):
Compounds

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English change.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (Cantonese) to exchange (currency, money, cash, etc.)
Compounds

References

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Japanese

Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. chant
  2. choir

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 부를 (bureul chang))

  1. hanja form? of (to chant)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: xướng, xẳng, xang, sướng, xắng, xẵng

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