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English definition establish, create; knife cut
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system chuang4 chuang1
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system cong3
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chong3
Japanese (Kana) ソウ ショウ はじめる
Japanese (Hepburn) hajimeru kizutsuku
Sino-Japanese sou shou
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chang
Hangul 창:1N
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Unicode radical / stroke count 刀刂 + 6
Unicode total stroke count 8
Cangjie TTSHI
Four corner code 8745.0
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 1, page 332, character 6
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 138, position 39
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 315, position 3
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 181, row 6, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 426, character 16
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 60, character 3
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 103
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 585
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 341
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 21041 / 5231


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