朝宗

Chinese

		morning; to face; towards morning; to face; towards; facing; direct; a dynasty; the imperial court; Korea, esp. N. Korea (abbrev.)	school; sect; purpose school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; family
trad. (朝宗)		朝	宗
simp. #(朝宗)		朝	宗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cháozōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄠˊ ㄗㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ciu⁴ zung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cháozōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄠˊ ㄗㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cháozong
    • Wade–Giles: chʻao²-tsung¹
    • Yale: cháu-dzūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chaurtzong
    • Palladius: чаоцзун (čaoczun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ciu⁴ zung¹
    • Yale: chìuh jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsiu⁴ dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qiu⁴ zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːu̯²¹ t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: trjew tsowng

Rime
Character	朝	宗
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	宵 (92)	冬 (5)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	陟遙切	作冬切
Baxter	trjew	tsowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiᴇu/	/t͡suoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈᵚiɛu/	/t͡suoŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶiæu/	/t͡soŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈiaw/	/t͡sawŋ/
Li Rong	/ȶjɛu/	/t͡soŋ/
Wang Li	/ȶĭɛu/	/t͡suoŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶi̯ɛu/	/t͡suoŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhāo	zōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ziu1	zung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-t<r>aw  [ts]ˤuŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*r'ew  ʔsuːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	朝	宗
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cháo	zōng
Middle Chinese	‹ drjew ›	‹ tsowng ›
Old Chinese	/*m-t<r>aw/	/*[ts]ˁuŋ/
English	(morning) audience at court	ancestral temple
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	朝	宗
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	1309	17892
Phonetic component	朝	宗
Rime group	宵	終
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	𪓙	宗
Old Chinese	/*r'ew/	/*ʔsuːŋ/

Verb

朝宗

1. (literary, of an official) to have an audience with the monarch
2. (literary, of water (e.g. river)) to flow towards a larger body of water (e.g the sea)