宗

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

• KangXi: 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) : 宀 (“house”) + 示 (“spirit tablet”) – temple; ancestral shrine.

Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsuk ⪤ *tsik (“to build”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “castle; fortress”). Perhaps cognate with Burmese ဆောင် (hcaung, “building, mansion”).

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)

4. having the same ancestry

   宗兄  ―  zōngxiōng  ―  elder brother

5. school; sect

   禪宗／禅宗  ―  chánzōng  ―  Zen

   真佛宗  ―  zhēn fó zōng  ―  True Buddha School

6. main purpose

   宗旨  ―  zōngzhǐ  ―  aim

7. to revere; to respect
8. to follow
9. (historical) an administrative division in historical Tibet, equivalent to a county

   當雄宗／当雄宗  ―  Dāngxióng Zōng  ―  Damxung dzong

10. Classifier for legal cases.
11. Classifier for cases of sickness.

    初步診斷有41宗病例，其中一宗死亡[…]香港醫學會傳染病顧問委員會主席梁子超，在本台節目《星期六問責》說，相比同類型病毒，例如中東呼吸綜合症及沙士，今次武漢至今僅一宗死亡個案，相信此病毒性肺炎的死亡率不算高。 [MSC, trad.]
    初步诊断有41宗病例，其中一宗死亡[…]香港医学会传染病顾问委员会主席梁子超，在本台节目《星期六问责》说，相比同类型病毒，例如中东呼吸综合症及沙士，今次武汉至今仅一宗死亡个案，相信此病毒性肺炎的死亡率不算高。 [MSC, simp.]

    From: 2020 January 11, RTHK, 醫學會專家相信武漢不明原因病毒性肺炎死亡率不算高

    Chūbù zhěnduàn yǒu 41 zōng bìnglì, qízhōng yī zōng sǐwáng Xiānggǎng Yīxuéhuì Chuánrǎnbìng Gùwèn Wěiyuánhuì zhǔxí Liáng Zǐchāo, zài běn tái jiémù “Xīngqīliù Wènzé” shuō, xiàngbǐ tónglèixíng bìngdú, lìrú Zhōngdōng hūxī zōnghézhèng jí Shāshì, jīncì Wǔhàn zhìjīn jǐn yī zōng sǐwáng gèàn, xiàngxìn cǐ bìngdúxìng fèiyán de sǐwánglǜ bùsuàn gāo. [Pinyin]

    41 tentative diagnoses, with 1 death among them […] Hong Kong Medical Association Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee leader LEUNG Chi-chiu said in our program "Saturday Accountability" that compared to viruses of the same type, such as MERS and SARS, Wuhan has only had one case of death so far; he believes that the death rate of this viral pneumonia cannot be considered to be high.

12. a surname

• (ancestral temple): 祖廟／祖庙 (zǔmiào)

• “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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