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U+7A97, 窗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A97

[U+7A96]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7A98]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 116, 穴+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹田水 (JCHWE) or 十金竹田大 (JCHWK), four-corner 30608, composition (GJKV) or (HT))

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 865, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25517
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1294, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2731, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7A97

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (hole) + (window).

Etymology

From circumstantial noun prefix *s- + (OC l̥ˤoŋ, “to penetrate”), literally "where light penetrates" (Baxter and Sagart, 2014).

Pronunciation


Note: tong1* - as a standalone noun.
Note:
  • té̤ng - vernacular;
  • chó̤ng - literary.
  • Eastern Min
    • (Fuzhou)
      • Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
  • Puxian Min
    • (Putian)
    • (Xianyou)
      • Pouseng Ping'ing: tyoeng1
      • Sinological IPA (key): /tʰyøŋ⁵⁴⁴/
    • (Putian)
      • Pouseng Ping'ing: corng1
      • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cho̤ng
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰɒŋ⁵³³/
    • (Xianyou)
      • Pouseng Ping'ing: corng1
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰɒŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Note:
  • toeng1/tyoeng1 - vernacular;
  • corng1 - literary.
Note:
  • thang - vernacular;
  • chhong - literary.
Note:
  • tiang1 - vernacular;
  • cong1 - literary.
  • Wu
    • (Northern: Shanghai)
      • Wugniu: 1tshaon
      • MiniDict: tshaon
      • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 1tshaan
      • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵³/
  • Xiang
    • (Changsha)
      • Wiktionary: qyan1
      • Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰy̯æn³³/

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰuɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sʰuɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡sʰuaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fʰaŋ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰuɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /p͡fʰɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡sʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡sʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡sʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰuã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰuɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /suə¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰuɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰyɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰo³¹/
Tunxi /t͡sʰau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕʰyan³³/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʰɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰuŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰœŋ⁵⁵/
Nanning /t͡sʰɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰœŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sʰɔŋ⁵⁵/
/tʰaŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰouŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /tʰœyŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tʰeŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hiaŋ²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (19)
Final () (9)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter tsrhaewng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ʃʰˠʌŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚɔŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ʃʰɔŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈ͡ʂʰaɨwŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ʃʰɔŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ʃʰɔŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʈ͡ʂʰɔŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cong1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chuāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsrhæwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-l̥ˁ<r>oŋ/
English window

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 1807
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰroːŋ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. window (Classifier: m;  c;  c)
      ―  chuānglián  ―  window blinds
    打開打开 [Cantonese]  ―  daa2 hoi1 go3 coeng1 [Jyutping]  ―  to open the window

Synonyms

Compounds

  • 剪燭西窗 / 剪烛西窗
  • 剪窗花
  • 北窗高臥 / 北窗高卧
  • 十年寒窗
  • 十年窗下
  • 十載寒窗 / 十载寒窗
  • 南風窗 / 南风窗
  • 同窗 (tóngchuāng)
  • 吊窗 (diàochuāng)
  • 同窗夜語 / 同窗夜语
  • 同窗契友
  • 天窗 (tiānchuāng)
  • 寒窗 (hánchuāng)
  • 推窗
  • 明窗彩戶 / 明窗彩户
  • 明窗淨几
  • 時事櫥窗 / 时事橱窗
  • 東窗事發 / 东窗事发 (dōngchuāngshìfā)
  • 樓窗 / 楼窗 (lóuchuāng)
  • 櫥窗 / 橱窗 (chúchuāng)
  • 櫥窗設計 / 橱窗设计
  • 民主櫥窗 / 民主橱窗
  • 氣窗 / 气窗 (qìchuāng)
  • 泥窗
  • 液晶窗
  • 漏窗
  • 玻璃窗
  • 瑣窗 / 琐窗
  • 百葉窗 / 百叶窗 (bǎiyèchuāng)
  • 百葉窗簾 / 百叶窗帘
  • 視窗 / 视窗 (shìchuāng)
  • 視窗九五 / 视窗九五
  • 空窗期 (kōngchuāngqī)
  • 窗下
  • 窗友 (chuāngyǒu)
  • 窗口 (chuāngkǒu)
  • 窗外 (chuāngwài)
  • 窗子 (chuāngzi)
  • 窗屜 / 窗屉
  • 窗帘 (chuānglián)
  • 窗戶 / 窗户
  • 窗戶眼兒 / 窗户眼儿
  • 窗戶紙 / 窗户纸
  • 窗明几淨 (chuāngmíngjījìng)
  • 窗格 (chuānggé)
  • 窗槅
  • 窗檻 / 窗槛 (chuāngjiàn)
  • 窗櫺 / 窗棂 (chuānglíng)
  • 窗沿
  • 窗洞 (chuāngdòng)
  • 窗牖
  • 窗眼
  • 窗簾 / 窗帘 (chuānglián)
  • 窗紙 / 窗纸
  • 窗紗 / 窗纱
  • 窗緣 / 窗缘
  • 窗臺 / 窗台 (chuāngtái)
  • 窗花 (chuānghuā)
  • 窗課 / 窗课
  • 窗間過馬 / 窗间过马
  • 窗飾 / 窗饰
  • 篷窗
  • 紙窗 / 纸窗
  • 紗窗 / 纱窗 (shāchuāng)
  • 綺窗 / 绮窗
  • 綠窗 / 绿窗
  • 聽窗 / 听窗
  • 肉吊窗
  • 自在窗
  • 舷窗 (xiánchuāng)
  • 芸窗
  • 落地窗 (luòdìchuāng)
  • 蓬窗
  • 螢窗 / 萤窗
  • 螢窗雪案 / 萤窗雪案
  • 西窗翦燭 / 西窗翦烛
  • 話冷雞窗 / 话冷鸡窗
  • 貼現窗口 / 贴现窗口
  • 鋁窗 / 铝窗
  • 鋁門窗 / 铝门窗
  • 鐵窗 / 铁窗 (tiěchuāng)
  • 門窗 / 门窗 (ménchuāng)
  • 開天窗 / 开天窗 (kāitiānchuāng)
  • 隔窗有耳
  • 雞窗 / 鸡窗
  • 雪案螢窗 / 雪案萤窗
  • 雪窗螢几
  • 雪窗螢火 / 雪窗萤火
  • 靈魂之窗 / 灵魂之窗

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Korean: 창(窓) (chang)
  • Vietnamese: song ()

Others:

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 36.

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: そう ()そう (sou, historical)
  • Kan-on: そう ()さう (sau, historical)
  • Kun: まど (mado, )
Kanji in this term
まど
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
まど6
[noun] [from 759] window
[noun] [from 1931] (regional, dialect, Etchū region) a deep gap in a mountain ridge (so called for the way the wind blows through, like a window)
[proper noun] (Internet slang, dated) Windows (an operating system)
Alternative spellings
,
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 창문 (changmun chang))

  1. hanja form? of (window)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: song

  1. (archaic, literary) window
  2. short for chấn song (upright post in a paling or railing)
    sau song sắt
    behind (iron) bars