宗

宗 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十一一火 (JMMF), four-corner 3090₁, composition ⿱宀示)

• 倧 婃 孮 徖 悰 棕 淙 猔 琮 碂 粽 綜(综) 腙 䑸 誴(𫟡) 䝋 賩 踪 錝(𫓽) 騌(骔) 鯮(𱇾) 鶎 崇 萗 鬃 崈 賨(𰷥)
• 𪞥 𠵻 𫮁 𡸶 𢃏 𢮱 𣇼 𤉳 𤙷 𥚎 𥟡 𥪗 𨲇 𬴚 𣮤 𬦓 𫐱 𪎏 𡳓 𨛱 𡩰 𡨫 𣦅 𥮵 𥚢 𡽿 𭝛

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 283, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7106
• Dae Jaweon: page 557, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 917, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5B97

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 宀 (“house”) + 示 (“spirit tablet”) – temple; ancestral shrine.

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ⪤ *tsik (“to build”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “castle; fortress”), Burmese ဆောင် (hcaung, “room; chamber; hall”) (Schuessler, 2007).

an administrative division in historical Tibet

Borrowed from Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “district; province”).

宗

1. ancestral temple
2. ancestors or elders of a people
3. family

   宗法  ―  zōngfǎ  ―  patriarcal clan system

   宗周  ―  Zōngzhōu  ―  Ancestral Zhou, Clan city of Zhou (Western Zhou dynasty's capital)

   宗兄  ―  zōngxiōng  ―  elder brother

   同宗  ―  tóngzōng  ―  to be of the same clan

4. school; sect

   禪宗／禅宗  ―  chánzōng  ―  Zen

   路德宗  ―  Lùdézōng  ―  Lutheranism

5. main purpose

   宗旨  ―  zōngzhǐ  ―  aim

   萬變不離其宗／万变不离其宗  ―  wàn biàn bù lí qí zōng  ―  to remain the same in essence despite all apparent changes

6. to revere; to respect; to follow

   • 孔子布衣，傳十餘世，學者宗之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     孔子布衣，传十余世，学者宗之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Kǒngzǐ bùyī, chuán shí yú shì, xuézhě zōng zhī. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

7. (historical) an administrative division in historical Tibet, equivalent to a county

   當雄宗／当雄宗  ―  Dāngxióng Zōng  ―  Damxung dzong

8. Classifier for things, sums of money, goods, etc.

   一宗款項／一宗款项  ―  yī zōng kuǎnxiàng  ―  a sum of money

   • 只是等咱們的事情過去了，早些把你們的正經事完結了，也了我一宗心事。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     只是等咱们的事情过去了，早些把你们的正经事完结了，也了我一宗心事。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber, mid-18^th century CE

     Zhǐshì děng zánmen de shìqíng guòqù le, zǎo xiē bǎ nǐmen de zhèngjīng shì wánjié le, yě liǎo wǒ yī zōng xīnshì. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

9. Classifier for cases (e.g. traffic accidents, criminal cases, medical cases, etc.).

   一宗命案 [Literary Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ zung¹ ming⁶ on³ [Jyutping]  ―  a homicide

   兩宗交易／两宗交易 [Literary Cantonese]  ―  loeng⁵ zung¹ gaau¹ jik⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  two transactions

   一宗交通意外 [Literary Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   jat¹ zung¹ gaau¹ tung¹ ji³ ngoi⁶ [Jyutping]

   a traffic accident

   1000多宗流感病例 [Literary Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   1000 do¹ zung¹ lau⁴ gam² beng⁶ lai⁶ [Jyutping]

   over 1000 cases of influenza

10. a surname

    宗澤／宗泽  ―  Zōng Zé  ―  Zong Ze (Southern Song official and general)

• (ancestral temple): 祖廟／祖庙 (zǔmiào)
• (classifier for legal cases): 樁／桩 (zhuāng), 起 (qǐ)

• “宗”, 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–

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. religion; doctrine; creed
2. a place to venerate one's ancestors
3. ancestor; ancestry; clan
4. esteemed; respected
5. central idea; core principle

• Go-on: そ (so)
• Kan-on: そう (sō, Jōyō)^{←そう (sou, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: むね (mune, 宗); たっとぶ (tattobu, 宗ぶ)

• 宗(しゅう)派(は) (shūha, “religious sect”)
• 宗(しゅう)教(きょう) (shūkyō, “religion”)

宗 (eumhun 마루 종 (maru jong))

1. Hanja form^? of 종 (“fundamental knowledge”).
2. Hanja form^? of 종 (“root; ancestry”).
3. Hanja form^? of 종 (“religion”).

• 종교 (宗敎, jonggyo, “religion”)

宗: Hán Nôm readings: tông, tong, tôn, tung

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