宗
宗 — jong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 마루 종
- Romanization
- jong
- English
- lineage, ancestry; ancestor, clan
- Mandarin
- zōng
- Japanese on'yomi
- シュウ, ソウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- むね
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #997 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 宀 (40, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5B97
Parts that make up 宗
- 宀 지붕집과 집 안에서 일어나는 일
- 示 보일 시, 땅 귀신 기 제물을 올린 제단제사와 신, 하늘이 내리는 일. 왼쪽에서 礻 로 쓴다
How 宗 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 宗 as a ideographic compound involving 宀, 示.
Korean example words with 宗
- 적종嫡宗 Korean gloss: 바른 혈통
- 타종他宗 Korean gloss: 다른 종파
- 조종祖宗 Korean gloss: 임금의 조상
- 종실宗室 Korean gloss: 임금의 친족
- 종사宗嗣 Korean gloss: 종가 계통의 후손
- 종단宗團 Korean gloss: 종교나 종파의 단체
- 종인宗人 Korean gloss: 촌수가 아주 먼 일가
- 종자宗子 Korean gloss: 종가(宗家)의 맏아들
- 종택宗宅 Korean gloss: 종가가 대대로 사용하는 집
- 종통宗統 Korean gloss: 종가(宗家) 맏아들의 혈통
- 종신宗臣 Korean gloss: 왕족으로 벼슬자리에 있는 사람
- 주종主宗 Korean gloss: 여러 가지 가운데 주가 되는 것
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 宗
- 宗教しゅうきょう religion; religious affiliation; belief
- 宗しゅう sect; denomination; tenets (of a religious sect)
- 宗門しゅうもん (religious) denomination; sect
- 宗派しゅうは sect; denomination; school (e.g. of poetry)
- 浄土真宗じょうどしんしゅう Jōdo Shinshū (offshoot of the Jōdo sect); True Pure Land School
- 宗主国そうしゅこく suzerain state
- 天台宗てんだいしゅう Tendai sect (of Buddhism)
- 宗教家しゅうきょうか religious leader; person of religion; religious figure
- 浄土宗じょうどしゅう Pure Land sect (of Buddhism); Jodo (sect)
- 宗家そうけ head of family; head house; sōke
- 禅宗ぜんしゅう Zen (Buddhism)
- 宗祖しゅうそ sect founder
Characters sharing the phonetic 宗
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “종” in Korean.
Other hanja read “종”
Other hanja with radical 宀
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences