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宗 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一一火 (JMMF), four-corner 30901, composition ⿱宀示)

trad. 宗
simp. # 宗

| | Old Chinese | | | -------------------------------- | ------------------------ | | 淙 | *zuːŋ, *sruːŋs, *zuːŋ | | 鬃 | *zuːŋ, *ʔsoːŋ, *zuːŋ | | 漴 | *zruːŋs | | 粽 | *ʔsoːŋs | | 宗 | *ʔsuːŋ | | 倧 | *ʔsuːŋ | | 綜 | *ʔsuːŋs | | 錝 | *ʔsuːŋs | | 賨 | *zuːŋ | | 琮 | *zuːŋ | | 悰 | *zuːŋ | | 孮 | *zuːŋ | | 誴 | *zuːŋ | | 崇 | *zruŋ | | 崈 | *zruŋ | | 踪 | *ʔsoŋ |

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 宀 (“house”) + 示 (“spirit tablet”) – temple; ancestral shrine.

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ⪤ *tsik (“to build”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “castle; fortress”), Burmese ဆောင် (hcaung, “room; chamber; hall”) (Schuessler, 2007).

an administrative division in historical Tibet

Borrowed from Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “district; province”).

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宗
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) zōng
MiddleChinese ‹ tsowng ›
OldChinese /*[ts]ˁuŋ/
English ancestral temple
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 宗
Reading # 1/1
No. 17892
Phoneticcomponent 宗
Rimegroup 終
Rimesubdivision 0
CorrespondingMC rime 宗
OldChinese /*ʔsuːŋ/

宗

  1. ancestral temple
  2. ancestors or elders of a people
    1. One of the two suffixes of emperors' temple names.
      Coordinate term: 祖 (zǔ)
  3. family
    宗法 ― zōngfǎ ― patriarchal clan system
    宗周 ― Zōngzhōu ― Ancestral Zhou, Clan city of Zhou (Western Zhou dynasty's capital)
    宗兄 ― zōngxiōng ― elder brother
    同宗 ― tóngzōng ― to be of the same clan
  4. school; sect
    禪宗／禅宗 ― chánzōng ― Zen
    路德宗 ― Lùdézōng ― Lutheranism
  5. main purpose
    宗旨 ― zōngzhǐ ― aim
    萬變不離其宗／万变不离其宗 ― wàn biàn bù lí qí zōng ― to remain the same in essence despite all apparent changes
  6. to revere; to respect; to follow
  7. (historical) an administrative division in historical Tibet, equivalent to a county
    當雄宗／当雄宗 ― Dāngxióng Zōng ― Damxung dzong
  8. Classifier for things, sums of money, goods, etc.
    一宗款項／一宗款项 ― yī zōng kuǎnxiàng ― a sum of money
  9. Classifier for cases (e.g. traffic accidents, criminal cases, medical cases, etc.).
    一宗命案 [Cantonese] ― jat1 zung1 ming6 on3 [Jyutping] ― a homicide
    兩宗交易／两宗交易 [Cantonese] ― loeng5 zung1 gaau1 jik6 [Jyutping] ― two transactions
    一宗交通意外 [Cantonese, trad. and _simp._]
    jat1 zung1 gaau1 tung1 ji3 ngoi6 [Jyutping]
    a traffic accident
    1000多宗流感病例 [Cantonese, trad. and _simp._]
    1000 do1 zung1 lau4 gam2 beng6 lai6 [Jyutping]
    over 1000 cases of influenza
  10. a surname
    宗澤／宗泽 ― Zōng Zé ― Zong Ze (Southern Song official and general)

宗

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. religion; doctrine; creed
  2. a place to venerate one's ancestors
  3. ancestor; ancestry; clan
  4. esteemed; respected
  5. central idea; core principle
Kanji in this term
宗
むねGrade: 6
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 宗 – see the following entry.
(This term, 宗, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

宗 (eumhun 마루 종 (maru jong))

  1. hanja form? of 종 (“fundamental knowledge”)
  2. hanja form? of 종 (“root; ancestry”)
  3. hanja form? of 종 (“religion”)

宗: Hán Nôm readings: tông, tong, tôn, tung

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