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English definition establish, create; knife cut
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system chuang4 chuang1
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) chuàng(435) chuāng(13)
Tang dynasty pronunciation(s), derived from or consistent with T'ang Poetic Vocabulary by Hugh M. Stimson, Far Eastern Publications, Yale Univ. 1976 chriɑ̀ng
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 きず はじめ はじめる
Japanese (Hepburn) kizu hajimeru
Sino-Japanese sou
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system chang
Hangul 창:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ sáng
Simplified variants
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Specialized semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning only in certain contexts)
Unicode radical / stroke count 刀刂 + 10
Unicode total stroke count 12
Cangjie ORLN
Four corner code 8260.0
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 4
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 350, character 15
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 143, position 2
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 323, position 11
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 0703l
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 188, row 1, position 3
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 175, character 32 page 426, character 17
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 63, character 7
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 679C
page 104, position 6
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 254
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 1462
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 584
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 341
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 0364
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 0702
Taiwan telegraph code 0482
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 21109 / 5275


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