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村

/t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
village; hamlet (Classifier: 條／条 c)
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 3
  • radical 木
  • 7 strokes

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Origin

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

Origin unclear. Seems a late graph, not in Shuowen dictionary of ca.100AD. Ogawa treats it as variant of CO graph 杶 "lacquer tree" which was used phonetically in the sense of "village" in place of another graph for "village", 邨, which may be taken provisionally as 阝 "settlement, village", and 屯 "accumulate, stay" as semantic and phonetic.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • meaningChinese木 “tree; woody plant”
  • soundChinese寸 “Legally defined as the tsun of 3.71475 cm.”

Meanings

character
  1. village; hamlet (Classifier: 條／条 c)
  2. housing estate
  3. rustic; boorish; uncouth; vulgar
  4. to scold
  5. rural village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 鄉民聚居的地方。 例：鄉村、漁村、村落
  2. 地方政府行政區域之一，在鄉之下，鄰之上，與里平行。
  3. 指具有共同特色或特定功能之聚落。 例：眷村、度假村、民俗村
  4. 粗俗、鄙陋。 例：村氣、村俗、村言

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How 村 was written 字形演變

  1. 村 in Bronze script
    Bronze
    金文
    Shang–Zhou
  2. 村 in Chu slips & silk script
    Chu slips & silk
    楚系簡帛
    Warring States
  3. 村 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  4. 村 in Regular script
    Regular
    楷書
    since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

  • Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
  • HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 村