窗

See also: 窓, 窻, 䆫, 囱, and 囪
窗 U+7A97, 窗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A97
← 窖
[U+7A96]
CJK Unified Ideographs 窘 →
[U+7A98]

Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes

Han character

窗 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹田水 (JCHWE) or 十金竹田大 (JCHWK), four-corner 30608, composition ⿱穴囱(GJKV) or ⿱穴囪(HT))

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 865, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25517
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1294, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2731, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7A97

Chinese

trad. 窗
simp. # 窗
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 穴 (“hole”) + 囱 (“window”).

Etymology

From circumstantial noun prefix *s- + 通 (OC l̥ˤoŋ, “to penetrate”), literally "where light penetrates" (Baxter and Sagart, 2014).

Pronunciation


Note: tong1* - as a standalone noun.
Note:
  • té̤ng - vernacular;
  • chó̤ng - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 窗
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰuɑŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sʰuɑŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡sʰuaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰuaŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fʰaŋ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰuɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /p͡fʰɑ̃³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰuɑŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡sʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡sʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡sʰuaŋ⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰuã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰaŋ³¹/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰuɑ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /suə¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰuɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰz̩ʷɑŋ³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰyɔ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰo³¹/
Tunxi /t͡sʰau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕʰyan³³/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʰɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɔŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰuŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰœŋ⁵⁵/
Nanning /t͡sʰɔŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰœŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /t͡sʰɔŋ⁵⁵/
/tʰaŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰouŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /tʰœyŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /tʰeŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hiaŋ²³/

Rime
Character 窗
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 初 (19)
Final (韻) 江 (9)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 楚江切
Baxter tsrhaewng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ʃʰˠʌŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈ͡ʂʰᵚɔŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ʃʰɔŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈ͡ʂʰaɨwŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ʃʰɔŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ʃʰɔŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʈ͡ʂʰɔŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chuāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cong1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 窗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chuāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsrhæwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-l̥ˁ<r>oŋ/
English window

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 窗
Reading # 1/1
No. 1807
Phonetic
component
囱
Rime
group
東
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
囪
Old
Chinese
/*sʰroːŋ/
Notes 原下作怱,注説文作窗

Definitions

窗

  1. window (Classifier: 扇 m; 個/个 c; 隻/只 c)
    窗簾/窗帘  ―  chuānglián  ―  window blinds
    打開個窗/打开个窗 [Cantonese]  ―  daa2 hoi1 go3 coeng1 [Jyutping]  ―  to open the window

Synonyms

Compounds

  • 剪燭西窗/剪烛西窗
  • 剪窗花
  • 北窗高臥/北窗高卧
  • 十年寒窗
  • 十年窗下
  • 十載寒窗/十载寒窗
  • 南風窗/南风窗
  • 同窗 (tóngchuāng)
  • 吊窗 (diàochuāng)
  • 同窗夜語/同窗夜语
  • 同窗契友
  • 天窗 (tiānchuāng)
  • 寒窗 (hánchuāng)
  • 推窗
  • 明窗彩戶/明窗彩户
  • 明窗淨几
  • 時事櫥窗/时事橱窗
  • 東窗事發/东窗事发 (dōngchuāngshìfā)
  • 樓窗/楼窗 (lóuchuāng)
  • 櫥窗/橱窗 (chúchuāng)
  • 櫥窗設計/橱窗设计
  • 民主櫥窗/民主橱窗
  • 氣窗/气窗 (qìchuāng)
  • 泥窗
  • 液晶窗
  • 漏窗
  • 玻璃窗
  • 瑣窗/琐窗
  • 百葉窗/百叶窗 (bǎiyèchuāng)
  • 百葉窗簾/百叶窗帘
  • 視窗/视窗 (shìchuāng)
  • 視窗九五/视窗九五
  • 空窗期 (kōngchuāngqī)
  • 窗下
  • 窗友
  • 窗口 (chuāngkǒu)
  • 窗外 (chuāngwài)
  • 窗子 (chuāngzi)
  • 窗屜/窗屉
  • 窗帘 (chuānglián)
  • 窗戶/窗户
  • 窗戶眼兒/窗户眼儿
  • 窗戶紙/窗户纸
  • 窗明几淨 (chuāngmíngjījìng)
  • 窗格 (chuānggé)
  • 窗槅
  • 窗檻/窗槛
  • 窗櫺/窗棂 (chuānglíng)
  • 窗沿
  • 窗洞 (chuāngdòng)
  • 窗牖
  • 窗眼
  • 窗簾/窗帘 (chuānglián)
  • 窗紙/窗纸
  • 窗紗/窗纱
  • 窗緣/窗缘
  • 窗臺/窗台 (chuāngtái)
  • 窗花 (chuānghuā)
  • 窗課/窗课
  • 窗間過馬/窗间过马
  • 窗飾/窗饰
  • 篷窗
  • 紙窗/纸窗
  • 紗窗/纱窗 (shāchuāng)
  • 綺窗/绮窗
  • 綠窗/绿窗
  • 聽窗/听窗
  • 肉吊窗
  • 自在窗
  • 舷窗 (xiánchuāng)
  • 芸窗
  • 落地窗 (luòdìchuāng)
  • 蓬窗
  • 螢窗/萤窗
  • 螢窗雪案/萤窗雪案
  • 西窗翦燭/西窗翦烛
  • 話冷雞窗/话冷鸡窗
  • 貼現窗口/贴现窗口
  • 鋁窗/铝窗
  • 鋁門窗/铝门窗
  • 鐵窗/铁窗 (tiěchuāng)
  • 門窗/门窗 (ménchuāng)
  • 開天窗/开天窗 (kāitiānchuāng)
  • 隔窗有耳
  • 雞窗/鸡窗
  • 雪案螢窗/雪案萤窗
  • 雪窗螢几
  • 雪窗螢火/雪窗萤火
  • 靈魂之窗/灵魂之窗

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (窗):
  • → Korean: 창(窓) (chang)
  • → Vietnamese: song (窗)

Others:

References

Japanese

Kanji

窗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term
窗
まど
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 窗 – see the following entry.
【窓まど】6
[noun] [from 759] window
[noun] [from 1931] (regional, dialect, Etchū region) a deep gap in a mountain ridge (so called for the way the wind blows through, like a window)
[proper noun] (Internet slang, dated) Windows (an operating system)
Alternative spellings
牕, 牖
(This term, 窗, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

窗 • (chang) (hangeul 창)

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Vietnamese

Han character

窗: Hán Nôm readings: song

  1. (archaic, literary) window
  2. Short for chấn song (“upright post in a paling or railing”).
    sau song sắt
    behind (iron) bars
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