衷

衷	U+8877, 衷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8877

← 衶
[U+8876]

CJK Unified Ideographs

衸 →
[U+8878]

Translingual

Han character

衷 (radical 145 衣+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十中竹女 (JLHV) or 卜中竹女 (YLHV), four-corner 5073₂, composition ⿳亠中𧘇)

References

KangXi: page 1112, character 28

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34139

Dae Jaweon: page 1578, character 12

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3076, character 10

Unihan data for U+8877

Chinese

simp. and trad.		衷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 衷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (中) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
中	tuŋ, tuŋs
忠	*tuŋ
衷	tuŋ, tuŋs
忡	*tʰuŋ
浺	*tʰuŋ
盅	tʰuŋ, duŋ, *tjoŋ
种	*duŋ
沖	*duŋ
翀	*duŋ
仲	*duŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs) : semantic 衣 (“clothes”) + phonetic 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs).

Etymology

Related to 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle; centre”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cung¹, zung¹
Min Bei (KCR): cé̤ng
Min Nan (POJ): thiong / tiong

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
  - Wade–Giles: chung¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cung¹, zung¹
  - Yale: chūng, jūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsung¹, dzung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cung¹, zung¹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: cé̤ng
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sœyŋ⁵⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiong
  - Tâi-lô: thiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tiofng
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiɔŋ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiong
  - Tâi-lô: tiong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: diofng
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /ʈɨuŋ/, /ʈɨuŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	衷	衷
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	知 (9)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	東 (2)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	陟弓切	陟仲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈɨuŋ/	/ʈɨuŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈiuŋ/	/ʈiuŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiuŋ/	/ȶiuŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈuwŋ/	/ʈuwŋ^H/
Li Rong	/ȶiuŋ/	/ȶiuŋ^H/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuŋ/	/ȶĭuŋ^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯uŋ/	/ȶi̯uŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng	zhòng

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*tuŋ/, /*tuŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衷	衷
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17409	17411
Phonetic component	中	中
Rime group	終	終
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	中	中
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/	/*tuŋs/

Definitions

衷

middle
inner feelings; heart; from the bottom of one's heart

Compounds

一本初衷
不衷
丹衷
共話衷腸／共话衷肠
初衷 (chūzhōng)
和衷共濟／和衷共济
天誘其衷／天诱其衷
宸衷
寸衷
得衷
折衷 (zhézhōng)

折衷家庭
無動於衷／无动于衷 (wúdòngyúzhōng)
熱衷／热衷 (rèzhōng)
由衷 (yóuzhōng)
由衷之言
由衷感激
素衷
苦衷 (kǔzhōng)
莫衷一是
莫衷壹是
衷心 (zhōngxīn)

衷悃
衷情 (zhōngqíng)
衷曲 (zhōngqū)
衷款
衷素
衷腸／衷肠 (zhōngcháng)
衷腸密語／衷肠密语
衷腸話／衷肠话
衷誠／衷诚
言不由衷
隱衷／隐衷 (yǐnzhōng)

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

衷

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

inmost, inside
heart, mind (also 心)

Readings

Goon: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)^{←ちゆう (tyū, historical)}
Kan’on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)^{←ちゆう (tyū, historical)}
Kun: うち (uchi, 衷); まごころ (magokoro, 衷)
Nanori: ただ (tada); ただし (tadashi); まこと (makoto)

Compounds

苦 (く)衷 (ちゅう) (kuchū, “distress”)
折 (せっ)衷 (ちゅう) (setchū, “blending, compromise”)
衷 (ちゅう)情 (じょう) (chūjō, “inner feelings, true heart”)
衷 (ちゅう)心 (しん) (chūshin, “innermost feelings”)
微 (び)衷 (ちゅう) (bichū, “one's innermost thoughts”)
和 (わ)衷 (ちゅう)協 (きょう)同 (どう) (wachūkyōdō, “harmonious cooperation”)

Korean

Hanja

衷 • (chung) (hangeul 충, revised chung, McCune–Reischauer ch'ung, Yale chwung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

衷 (trung)

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