忠

See also: 中心

忠 U+5FE0, 忠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FE0 ← 忟 [U+5FDF] CJK Unified Ideographs 忡 → [U+5FE1]

Translingual

Han character

忠 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 中心 (LP), four-corner 5033₆, composition ⿱中心)

Derived characters

• 𠊞, 㥙, 𣷡, 𦜦, 䛱, 𨨩, 𩗻, 𢘑, 𢘗, 𡲦, 𫁑, 𨵖, 𬅇, 贒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 377, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10353
• Dae Jaweon: page 704, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2273, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5FE0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		忠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 忠
Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

	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

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tuŋ) : phonetic 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan གཞུང་བ (gzhung ba, “to attend; to be heedful”). Perhaps the same word as 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	忠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	陟弓切
Baxter	trjuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈuwŋ/
Li Rong	/ȶiuŋ/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zung1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	忠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōng
Middle Chinese	‹ trjuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*truŋ/
English	loyal
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	忠
Reading #	1/1
No.	17408
Phonetic component	中
Rime group	終
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	中
Old Chinese	/*tuŋ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōng (zhong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zung¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chûng
• Eastern Min (BUC): dṳ̆ng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiong

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dong¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tson

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhong
    • Wade–Giles: chung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jong
    • Palladius: чжун (čžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zung¹
    • Yale: jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chûng
    • Hakka Romanization System: zung^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zung¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡suŋ²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dṳ̆ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiong
    • Tâi-lô: tiong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɔŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: dong¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tong
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /toŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹tson
    • MiniDict: tson^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tson
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡soŋ⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: trjuwng

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*truŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tuŋ/

Definitions

忠

1. loyal; devoted; faithful
2. loyalty; devotion; fidelity

Compounds

• 一門忠烈／一门忠烈
• 不忠 (bùzhōng)
• 公忠 (gōngzhōng)
• 公忠體國／公忠体国
• 報國盡忠／报国尽忠
• 大奸似忠
• 大姦似忠／大奸似忠
• 大忠 (Dàzhōng)
• 孤忠
• 宅心忠厚
• 小忠小信
• 忠信 (zhōngxìn)
• 忠勇
• 忠厚 (zhōnghòu)
• 忠厚老實／忠厚老实
• 忠告
• 忠君報國／忠君报国
• 忠君愛國／忠君爱国 (zhōngjūn'àiguó)
• 忠孝 (zhōngxiào)
• 忠孝兩全／忠孝两全 (zhōngxiàoliǎngquán)
• 忠孝節烈／忠孝节烈
• 忠孝節義／忠孝节义
• 忠孝賢良／忠孝贤良
• 忠孝雙全／忠孝双全
• 忠實／忠实 (zhōngshí)
• 忠寮 (Zhōngliáo)
• 忠山 (Zhōngshān)
• 忠心 (zhōngxīn)
• 忠心耿耿 (zhōngxīngěnggěng)
• 忠心貫日／忠心贯日
• 忠心赤膽／忠心赤胆
• 忠忱 (zhōngchén)
• 忠恕 (zhōngshù)
• 忠悃
• 忠愨／忠悫
• 忠敬
• 忠於職守／忠于职守
• 忠果
• 忠款
• 忠正
• 忠烈 (zhōngliè)
• 忠直 (zhōngzhí)
• 忠節／忠节 (zhōngjié)
• 忠經／忠经
• 忠義／忠义 (zhōngyì)
• 忠義雙全／忠义双全
• 忠肝義膽／忠肝义胆 (zhōnggānyìdǎn)
• 忠臣 (zhōngchén)
• 忠臣孝子
• 忠臣烈士
• 忠臣義士／忠臣义士
• 忠良 (zhōngliáng)
• 忠藎／忠荩
• 忠言 (zhōngyán)
• 忠言嘉謨／忠言嘉谟
• 忠言奇謀／忠言奇谋
• 忠言讜論／忠言谠论
• 忠言逆耳 (zhōngyánnì'ěr)
• 忠誠／忠诚 (zhōngchéng)
• 忠諫／忠谏
• 忠貞／忠贞 (zhōngzhēn)
• 忠貞不渝／忠贞不渝 (zhōngzhēnbùyú)
• 忠貫白日／忠贯白日
• 忠賢／忠贤
• 忠路 (Zhōnglù, “Zhonglu”)
• 忠順／忠顺 (zhōngshùn)
• 忠魂
• 忠鯁／忠鲠
• 忠黨愛國／忠党爱国 (zhōngdǎng'àiguó)
• 愚忠 (yúzhōng)
• 攄忠報國／摅忠报国
• 效忠 (xiàozhōng)
• 朴忠
• 死忠 (sǐzhōng)
• 爛忠厚／烂忠厚
• 盡忠／尽忠 (jìnzhōng)
• 盡忠報國／尽忠报国
• 盡忠竭力／尽忠竭力
• 盡忠職守／尽忠职守 (jìnzhōngzhíshǒu)
• 移孝作忠
• 移孝為忠／移孝为忠
• 竭智盡忠／竭智尽忠
• 精忠 (Jīngzhōng)
• 精忠報國／精忠报国
• 精忠旗
• 精忠柏
• 至忠
• 褒忠鄉／褒忠乡
• 赤心忠膽／赤心忠胆
• 赤膽忠心／赤胆忠心
• 赤膽忠肝／赤胆忠肝
• 逆耳忠言
• 顯忠廟／显忠庙 (Xiǎnzhōngmiào)

 

References

• “忠”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 忠

忠

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. loyalty

Readings

• Go-on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)^{←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)^{←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)}
• Kun: まごころ (magokoro, 忠)
• Nanori: たた (tata, 忠)、ただ (tada, 忠)、ただし (tadashi, 忠)、なお (nao, 忠)、きよし (kiyoshi, 忠)

Compounds

Compounds

• 忠(ちゅう)実(じつ) (chūjitsu)
• 忠(ちゅう)臣(しん) (chūshin)
• 忠(ちゅう)誠(せい) (chūsei)
• 忠(ちゅう)告(こく) (chūkoku)
• 忠(ちゅう)義(ぎ) (chūgi)
• 忠(ちゅう)恕(じょ) (chūjo)
• 忠(ちゅう)僕(ぼく) (chūboku)
• 忠(ちゅう)勇(ゆう) (chūyū)

Proper noun

忠(ただし) or 忠(たゞし) • (Tadashi) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

忠 (eum 충 (chung))

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Vietnamese

Han character

忠: Hán Nôm readings: trung

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