誦

See also: 诵

誦	U+8AA6, 誦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AA6

← 誥
[U+8AA5]

CJK Unified Ideographs

誧 →
[U+8AA7]

Translingual

Han character

誦 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜口弓戈月 (YRNIB), four-corner 0762₇, composition ⿰訁甬)

Derived characters

𭋭

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1164, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35551
Dae Jaweon: page 1629, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3980, character 12
Unihan data for U+8AA6

Chinese

trad.		誦
simp.		诵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (用) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
通	*l̥ʰoːŋ
俑	l̥ʰoːŋ, loŋʔ
蓪	*l̥ʰoːŋ
桶	l̥ʰoːŋʔ, l'oːŋʔ
捅	*l̥ʰoːŋʔ
痛	*l̥ʰoːŋs
筩	*l'oːŋ
誦	*ljoŋs
傭	l̥ʰoŋ, loŋ
慵	*ɦljoŋ
鱅	ɦljoŋ, loŋ
滽	*loŋ
墉	*loŋ
鏞	*loŋ
鄘	*loŋ
槦	*loŋ
銿	*loŋ
甬	*loŋʔ
勇	*loŋʔ
涌	*loŋʔ
踊	*loŋʔ
蛹	*loŋʔ
恿	*loŋʔ
慂	*loŋʔ
悀	*loŋʔ
埇	*loŋʔ
踴	*loŋʔ
庸	*loŋ
用	*loŋs
佣	*loŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ljoŋs) : semantic 言 + phonetic 甬 (OC *loŋʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sòng (song⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zung⁶
Northern Min (KCR): sē̤ng
Eastern Min (BUC): sê̤ṳng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): siōng / siòng

(Teochew, Peng'im): song⁶
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zon

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sòng
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sòng
  - Wade–Giles: sung⁴
  - Yale: sùng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sonq
  - Palladius: сун (sun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zung⁶
  - Yale: juhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzung⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zung⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ²²/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sē̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœyŋ⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sê̤ṳng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /søyŋ²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siōng
  - Tâi-lô: siōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siong
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siòng
  - Tâi-lô: siòng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioxng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ²¹/

Note:

siōng - literary;
siòng - vernacular (俗).

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: song⁶
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sŏng
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /soŋ³⁵/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zon
  - MiniDict: zon^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zon
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zoŋ²³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 誦
Mandarin	Beijing	/tʰuŋ⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/suŋ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/suŋ⁵³/
	Jinan	/suŋ²¹/ 新 /ɕyŋ²¹/ 老
	Qingdao	/səŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/syuŋ³¹²/
	Xi'an	/suŋ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/suə̃²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/suŋ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/sũn¹³/
	Ürümqi	/suŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/soŋ³⁵/
	Chengdu	/soŋ¹³/
	Guiyang	/soŋ²¹³/
	Kunming	/soŋ¹/
	Nanjing	/soŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/səŋ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/suəŋ⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/suŋ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/sũŋ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/soŋ³⁵/ /zoŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/zoŋ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zoŋ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/jyɔ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʰʌ̃²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/san⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/soŋ⁵⁵/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/sən⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/siuŋ⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/suŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡soŋ²²/
	Nanning	/t͡suŋ²²/
	Hong Kong	/t͡suŋ²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/siɔŋ²²/ /siɔŋ²¹/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/søyŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/sœyŋ⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/toŋ³³/ /taŋ³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/hoŋ³⁵/

Middle Chinese: zjowngH

Rime
Character	誦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似用切
Baxter	zjowngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨoŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/zioŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/zioŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zuawŋ^H/
Li Rong	/zioŋ^H/
Wang Li	/zĭwoŋ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯woŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*sə-[l]oŋ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ljoŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	誦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sòng
Middle Chinese	‹ zjowng^H ›
Old Chinese	/*sə-[l]oŋ-s/
English	recite
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	誦
Reading #	1/1
No.	15436
Phonetic component	用
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	頌
Old Chinese	/*ljoŋs/

Definitions

誦

to read aloud
to recount
to recite; to chant

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

誦

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ず (zu)
Kan-on: しょう (shō)
On: じゅ (ju)
Kun: となえる (tonaeru, 誦える)、よむ (yomu, 誦む)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 誦 (MC zjowngH).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448	Recorded as Middle Korean 쑈ᇰ〮 (Yale: ssyóng) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
Middle Korean
Text	Eumhun
Text	*Gloss (hun)*	Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527^[1]	외올〮 쇼ᇰ〯	Recorded as Middle Korean 쇼ᇰ〯 (syǒng) (Yale: syǒng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰo̞(ː)ŋ]
Phonetic hangul: [송(ː)]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

誦

Wikisource

誦 (eumhun 외울 송 (oe'ul song))

hanja form^? of 송 (“to recite; to read aloud”)

Compounds

암송 (暗誦, amsong)
송독 (誦讀, songdok)
낭송 (朗誦, nangsong)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

誦: Hán Việt readings: tụng (似(tự)用(dụng)切(thiết))^[1]^[2]^[3]
誦: Nôm readings: tụng^[1]^[2]^[4], tọng^[3]^[5], tộng^[3]

chữ Hán form of tụng (“to recite”).

Compounds

誦經 (tụng kinh)

References

[tdcndg-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Nguyễn (2014).

[tdcntd-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).

[gdhn-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Trần (2004).

[taberd-4] Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).

[btcn-5] Hồ (1976).

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