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仲

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仲 U+4EF2, 仲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EF2
← 仱
[U+4EF1]
CJK Unified Ideographs 仳 →
[U+4EF3]

Translingual

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Stroke order
6 strokes

Han character

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仲 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 人中 (OL) or 難人中 (XOL), four-corner 25206, composition ⿰亻中)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 94, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 403
  • Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 121, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+4EF2

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 仲
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts



References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *duŋs): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle”).

Etymology 1

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simp. and trad.
仲

Derived from 中 (OC *tuŋ, *tuŋs, “middle”).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 仲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 東 (2)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 直衆切
Baxter drjuwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖɨuŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖiuŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡiuŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖuwŋH/
Li
Rong
/ȡiuŋH/
Wang
Li
/ȡĭuŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȡʱi̯uŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zung6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 仲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhòng
Middle
Chinese
‹ drjuwngH ›
Old
Chinese
/*N-truŋ-s/
English middle (of brothers)

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 仲
Reading # 1/1
No. 17419
Phonetic
component
中
Rime
group
終
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
仲
Old
Chinese
/*duŋs/

Definitions

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仲

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) second, especially when referring to seniority of siblings. See usage notes of 伯.
    伯仲  ―  bózhòng  ―  superior and inferior, competition, comparison
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) middle
    仲夏  ―  zhòngxià  ―  midsummer
    仲裁  ―  zhòngcái  ―  arbitration
  3. a surname

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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simp. and trad.
仲
alternative forms 重

Probably from 重 or 尚[1].

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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仲 (Cantonese)

  1. still (referring to time)
    仲未得住。 [Cantonese]  ―  zung6 mei6 dak1 zyu6. [Jyutping]  ―  It's still not OK.
    佢而家都仲食緊飯。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    佢而家都仲食紧饭。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    keoi5 ji4 gaa1 dou1 zung6 sik6 gan2 faan6. [Jyutping]
    He is still eating, even now.
  2. even more
    我哋間屋仲大。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    我哋间屋仲大。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    ngo5 dei6 gaan1 uk1 zung6 daai6. [Jyutping]
    Our house is even bigger.
    依條褲仲貴。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    依条裤仲贵。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    ji1 tiu4 fu3 zung6 gwai3. [Jyutping]
    This pair of pants is even more expensive.
  3. also; as well
    我哋尋日夜晚黑仲去埋維多利亞港添! [Cantonese, trad.]
    我哋寻日夜晚黑仲去埋维多利亚港添! [Cantonese, simp.]
    ngo5 dei6 cam4 jat6 je6 maan5 haak1 zung6 heoi3 maai4 wai4 do1 lei6 aa3 gong2 tim1! [Jyutping]
    We went to Victoria Harbor last night as well!
Synonyms
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Compounds

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References

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  1. ^
    2011 November 16, 客來忙 Clément Tchau, “客來忙 Clément Tchau: 駁王亭之“重有最靚嘅豬腩肉”之“重有”說”, in Blogspot‎[1]:
    “重”既非正字,那麼正字是甚麼?先假設所求之廣州話[tsuŋ]22字為S。試看一個字:尚。字義上,“尚”作副詞時有“仍然”義;和普通話“還有”之“還”字一樣,“尚”的“又”義是由“仍”義引申而來的,即“排除去另外某物外,仍有此物”;“更”義又是由“又”義引申而來;“尚”又通“上”,“上”可訓作“進”,有進一步的意味,結合考慮“尚”作動詞時有“增加”、“超過”的意義,則其可引申為“又”、“更”相當合理。至此,“尚”與S意義完全吻合……
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  • 饒秉才; 歐陽覺亞; 周無忌 (2010), 廣州話方言詞典(修訂版) (in Chinese), 香港: 商務印書館, →ISBN
  • “仲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “仲”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 311.

Japanese

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Kanji

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仲

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: じゅう (jū)←ぢゆう (dyuu, historical)
  • Kan-on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)
  • Kun: なか (naka, 仲, Jōyō)

Compounds

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
仲
なか
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 仲 – see the following entry.
【なか】
[noun] relationship, terms
[proper noun] a surname
(This term, 仲, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

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Korean

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

仲 (eum 중 (jung))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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仲: Hán Nôm readings: trọng

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References

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