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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 はじめる
Japanese (Hepburn) kizu hajimeru
Sino-Japanese sou
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chang
Specialized semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning only in certain contexts)
Unicode radical / stroke count 刀刂 + 8
Unicode total stroke count 10
Cangjie TTSHI
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 343, character 4
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 141, position 9
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 186, row 5, position 4
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 62, character 7
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 page 105, position 2
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 103 1055
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 21081 / 5259


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