柊

柊 U+67CA, 柊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67CA ← 柉 [U+67C9] CJK Unified Ideographs 柋 → [U+67CB]

Translingual

Han character

柊 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水卜 (DHEY), four-corner 4793₃, composition ⿰木冬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 518, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14610
• Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1187, character 3
• Unihan data for U+67CA

Chinese

simp. and trad.		柊

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 柊树 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Osmanthus heterophyllus (English)

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
疼	*dɯːŋ, *duːŋ
冬	*tuːŋ
苳	*tuːŋ
笗	*tuːŋ
炵	*tʰuːŋ, *duːŋ
佟	*duːŋ
鼕	*duːŋ
鉖	*duːŋ
終	*tjuŋ
螽	*tjuŋ
鼨	*tjuŋ
柊	*tjuŋ
鴤	*tjuŋ
泈	*tjuŋ
蔠	*tjuŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹ / dung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
    • Palladius: чжун (čžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zung¹ / dung¹
    • Yale: jūng / dūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹ / dung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹ / dung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/, /tʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuwng

Rime
Character	柊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職戎切
Baxter	tsyuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjuŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	柊
Reading #	1/1
No.	2431
Phonetic component	冬
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	終
Old Chinese	/*tjuŋ/

Definitions

柊

1. holly osmanthus

Compounds

• 柊楑
• 柊樹 / 柊树 (zhōngshù)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C05078
• “柊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–