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U+5B8B, 宋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B8B

[U+5B8A]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5B8C]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 40, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十木 (JD) or 難十木 (XJD), four-corner 30904, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 282, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7078
  • Dae Jaweon: page 554, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 915, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5B8B
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Pronunciation


Note:
  • sang4 - vernacular (incl. surname in Putian);
  • sorng4 - literary (incl. surname in Xianyoru and part of Putian).

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. (~朝) Song dynasty of China (960–1279), reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan
  2. Song or Liu Song (420–479), the first of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period
  3. a surname, listed 118th in the Baijiaxing
       Sòng Měilíng   Soong Mei-ling
       Sòng Chǔyú   James Soong (Taiwanese politician)
  4. () Song, a state during the Zhou dynasty of ancient China
  5. A Chinese constellation, considered a part of the Left Wall of the Heavenly Market Enclosure

See also

More information Dynasties (朝代) in Chinese history, Name ...

Descendants

  • English: Song, Sung, Soong

Compounds

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Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. Song (Chinese dynasty)

Readings

(Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)

  • Go-on: (so)
  • Kan-on: そう ()
  • Tō-on: そん (son)
  • Nanori: おき (oki)くに (kuni)すえ (sue)

Compounds

Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC sowngH). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

(そう) () 

  1. Song (former Chinese dynasty):
    1. name of the state during the Zhou dynasty (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    2. the 劉宋 (Ryūsō), around 420-479
    3. the 北宋 (Hokusō, Northern Song) and 南宋 (Nansō, Southern Song) dynasties, spanning around 960-1279
  2. a surname

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

(eum (song))

  1. referring to the Song Dynasty (宋朝)
  2. A surname

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: tống

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