章

章 U+7AE0, 章
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AE0
← 竟
[U+7ADF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 竡 →
[U+7AE1]

Translingual

Han character

章 (radical 117, 立+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿日十 (YTAJ), four-corner 00406, composition ⿱立早 or ⿱音十)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 871, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25761
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1301, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2709, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7AE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 章

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 章
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (章) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
章 *kjaŋ
樟 *kjaŋ
彰 *kjaŋ
漳 *kjaŋ
鄣 *kjaŋ
璋 *kjaŋ
嫜 *kjaŋ
獐 *kjaŋ
慞 *kjaŋ
墇 *kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
障 *kjaŋ, *kjaŋs
麞 *kjaŋ
蔁 *kjaŋ
暲 *kjaŋ
嶂 *kjaŋs
瘴 *kjaŋs

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chiuⁿ/chioⁿ - vernacular;
  • chiong/chiang - literary.
Note:
  • zion1/ziên1 - vernacular;
  • ziang1 - literary.
Rime
Character 章
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 諸良切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhāng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 章
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhāng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*taŋ/
English brilliant; distinctive mark; to display

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 章
Reading # 1/1
No. 16817
Phonetic
component		 章
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 章
Old
Chinese		 /*kjaŋ/

Definitions

章

  1. chapter; section
    章節 / 章节  ―  zhāngjié  ―  chapter, section
  2. composition; structure
    文章  ―  wénzhāng  ―  article, essay
  3. rules; regulations; constitution
    章程  ―  zhāngchéng  ―  rules, regulations
  4. seal; stamp
    圖章 / 图章  ―  túzhāng  ―  stamp, seal
  5. badge; medal; emblem
    徽章  ―  huīzhāng  ―  badge, emblem
  6. order
  7. memorial to the throne
    奏章  ―  zòuzhāng  ―  memorial to the throne
  8. to make known
  9. Classifier for chapters, etc.
  10. A surname​. Zhang; Cheung

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

章

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

章 (hiragana しょう, rōmaji shō)

  1. chapter; section

Proper noun

章 (hiragana あきら, rōmaji Akira)

  1. A male given name

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

章 • (jang) (hangeul 장, McCune–Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

章 (chương)

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