村

See also: 材, 付, and 邨

村	U+6751, 村 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6751

← 材
[U+6750]

CJK Unified Ideographs

杒 →
[U+6752]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

村 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木木戈 (DDI), four-corner 4490₀, composition ⿰木寸)

Derived characters

𠴘𢚳

References

KangXi: page 511, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14464
Dae Jaweon: page 896, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1158, character 2
Unihan data for U+6751

Chinese

simp. and trad.		村
alternative forms		邨

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
村	*sʰuːn
忖	*sʰuːnʔ
刌	*sʰuːnʔ
寸	*sʰuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰuːn) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 寸 (OC *sʰuːns).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cūn (cun¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhûn
Min Dong (BUC): chŏng
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chhun / chhoan / chhng
(Teochew, Peng'im): ceng¹
Wu (Wiktionary): tshen (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cun
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻun¹
  - Yale: tswūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuen
  - Palladius: цунь (cunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰwən⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cūnr
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cunr
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻunrh¹
  - Yale: tswūnr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuel
  - Palladius: цуnр (cunr)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰwəɻ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cyun¹
  - Yale: chyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: qun¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰyːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhûn
  - Hakka Romanization System: cun´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cun¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰun²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: chŏng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰouŋ⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhun
  - Tâi-lô: tshun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhwn
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰun³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan
  - Tâi-lô: tshuan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhoafn
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuan³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhng
  - Tâi-lô: tshng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhngf
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍³³/

Note:

chhun - literary;
chhoan/chhng - vernacular.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ceng¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshṳng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɯŋ³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: tshen (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰəɲ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰuən/

Rime
Character	村
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	此尊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuən/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuon/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwən/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰuən/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyun¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰuːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	村
Reading #	1/1
No.	1910
Phonetic component	寸
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	村
Old Chinese	/*sʰuːn/

Definitions

村

village; hamlet (Classifier: 條／条 c)
農村／农村 ― nóngcūn ― rural area, village, countryside
鄉村／乡村 ― xiāngcūn ― rural area, village, countryside
(especially Hong Kong) housing estate
(attributive) rustic; boorish; uncouth; vulgar
(Beijing) to scold (clarification of this definition is needed)
rural village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)

Usage notes

For the second sense, this word is usually written as 邨.

Compounds

Derived terms from 村

三家村
唐村 (Tángcūn)
地球村 (dìqiúcūn)
大村 (dàcūn)
孟村 (Mèngcūn)
安村 (Āncūn)
小村 (Xiǎocūn)
山村 (shāncūn)
度假村 (dùjiàcūn)
撒村
文化村
杏花村 (xìnghuācūn)
村人 (cūnrén)
村俗
村塾
村墟
村夫 (cūnfū)
村夫俗子
村夫子
村夫野老
村姑 (cūngū)
村子 (cūnzi)
村容 (cūnróng)
村居野店
村校
村歌
村民 (cūnmín)
村沙
村牛
村疃
村筋俗骨

村老子
村落 (cūnluò)
村虔
村貌 (cūnmào)
村路歧
村郎
村野 (cūnyě)
村雨
樟村坪 (Zhāngcūnpíng)
眷村 (juàncūn)
翠亨村
自然村 (zìráncūn)
荒村 (huāngcūn)
集村
高村 (Gāocūn)
村里
丁村遺址／丁村遗址
中興新村／中兴新村
乾村沙／干村沙
千村萬落／千村万落
圍村／围村 (wéicūn)
專業村／专业村
尋村轉疃／寻村转疃
村務／村务
村務酒／村务酒
村塢／村坞
村天樂／村天乐
村婦／村妇
村學／村学
村學究／村学究

村廝／村厮
村強／村强
村書／村书
村村勢勢／村村势势
村氣／村气
村沙樣勢／村沙样势
村潑／村泼
村生泊長／村生泊长
村紂／村纣
村聲潑嗓／村声泼嗓
村莊／村庄 (cūnzhuāng)
村話／村话
村錢／村钱
村鎮／村镇 (cūnzhèn)
村長／村长 (cūnzhǎng)
村閒／村闲
模範村／模范村
漁村／渔村 (yúcūn)
當村／当村
發村／发村
賽村社／赛村社
趙村／赵村 (Zhàocūn)
農村／农村 (nóngcūn)
鄉村／乡村 (xiāngcūn)
鄉村社區／乡村社区
鄉村音樂／乡村音乐 (xiāngcūn yīnyuè)
鄧村／邓村 (Dèngcūn)
鄰村／邻村 (líncūn)
雨村曲話／雨村曲话
麻風村／麻风村

Japanese

Kanji

村

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

village

Readings

Go-on: そん (son, Jōyō)
Kan-on: そん (son, Jōyō)
Kun: むら (mura, 村, Jōyō)
Nanori: え (e); むた (muta); ら (ra)

Compounds

村(そん)落(らく) (sonraku, “village, hamlet”)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
村
むら Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 村 – see the following entry.

【むら】	[noun] village (a rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town) Alternative spellings 村, 𨛗

(This term, 村, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

村 (eumhun 마을 촌 (ma'eul chon))

Hanja form^? of 촌 (“village”).

Vietnamese

Han character

村: Hán Nôm readings: thôn, thon, thun, chon, chôn, thuôn, thuốn, xóm

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Derived terms

农村 (nông thôn)
孤村 (cô thôn)
村塢 (thôn ổ)
村塢 (thôn ổ)
村民 (thôn dân)
村莊 (thôn trang)
鄉村 (hương thôn)