そう

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See also: かん
そう U+5B97, 宗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B97

[U+5B96]
CJK Unified Ideographs かん
[U+5B98]

Translingual

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Han character

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そう (Kangxi radical 40, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input じゅういちいち (JMMF), four-corner 30901, composition しめせ)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 283, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7106
  • Dae Jaweon: page 557, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 917, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5B97

Chinese

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trad. そう
simp. # そう
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Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい会意かいい) : (house) + しめせ (spirit tablet)temple; ancestral shrine.

Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location そう
Mandarin Beijing /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /suŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡suŋ²¹/
Jinan /t͡suŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡səŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡suŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡suŋ²¹/
Xining /t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /t͡sũn³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡soŋ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡soŋ³¹/
Hefei /t͡səŋ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡soŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡soŋ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡soŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡soŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /t͡san¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡soŋ³³/
Xiangtan /t͡sən³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡suŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡suŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡soŋ⁵³/
Nanning /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡suŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡soŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /toŋ²³/

Rime
Character そう
Reading # 1/1
Initial (こえ) せい (13)
Final (いん) ふゆ (5)
Tone (調しらべ) Level (Ø)
Openness (ひらきあい) Open
Division (ひとし) I
Fanqie さくふゆきり
Baxter tsowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡suoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡suoŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡soŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sawŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡soŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡suoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡suoŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zung1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character そう
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsowng ›
Old
Chinese
/*[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 そう
Reading # 1/1
No. 17892
Phonetic
component
そう
Rime
group
おわり
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
そう
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsuːŋ/

Definitions

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そう

  1. ancestral temple
  2. ancestors or elders of a people
    1. One of the two suffixes of emperors' temple names.
      Coordinate term: ()
  3. family
    そうほう  ―  zōng  ―  patriarchal clan system
    そうしゅう  ―  Zōngzhōu  ―  Ancestral Zhou, Clan city of Zhou (Western Zhou dynasty's capital)
    そうあに  ―  zōngxiōng  ―  elder brother
    どうそう  ―  tóngzōng  ―  to be of the same clan
  4. school; sect
    ぜんそうぜんそう  ―  chánzōng  ―  Zen
    みちとくそう  ―  Lùdézōng  ―  Lutheranism
  5. main purpose
    そうむね  ―  zōngzhǐ  ―  aim
    まんへん不離ふりそうまん变不离其そう  ―  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
    とうゆうそうとうゆうそう  ―  Dāngxióng Zōng  ―  Damxung dzong
  8. Classifier for things, sums of money, goods, etc.
    いちそう款項いちそう款项  ―  zōng kuǎnxiàng  ―  a sum of money
  9. Classifier for cases (e.g. traffic accidents, criminal cases, medical cases, etc.).
    いちそういのちあん [Literary Cantonese]  ―  jat1 zung1 ming6 on3 [Jyutping]  ―  a homicide
    りょうそう交易こうえきそう交易こうえき [Literary Cantonese]  ―  loeng5 zung1 gaau1 jik6 [Jyutping]  ―  two transactions
    いちそう交通こうつう意外いがい [Literary Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
    jat1 zung1 gaau1 tung1 ji3 ngoi6 [Jyutping]
    a traffic accident
    1000おおそう流感りゅうかんやまいれい [Literary Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
    1000 do1 zung1 lau4 gam2 beng6 lai6 [Jyutping]
    over 1000 cases of influenza
  10. a surname
    そうさわそう  ―  Zōng  ―  Zong Ze (Southern Song official and general)

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Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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そう

(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

Readings

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Compounds

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Definitions

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Kanji in this term
そう
むね
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of そう – see the following entry.
むねむねS
[noun] principle; aim; purpose
[noun] gist; meaning
(This term, そう, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

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Hanja

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そう (eumhun 마루 (maru jong))

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

Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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

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