| Chinese Text Project |
| 創 U+5275 |  Seal script | 刅 Semantic variant | 创 Simplified character | 刱 Semantic variant | 剙 Alternate form Specialized semantic variant | 戧 Semantic variant Semantic variant | 瘡 Semantic variant | 𠛲 Semantic variant | 𠝀 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 刀+ 10 strokes = 12 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.175#32 p.426#17 Kangxi: p.143#02 Cihai: p.188r1c03 GSR: 703.l Hanyu: v1,p0350#15 |
| Composition: | Left: 倉, right: 刂. Component of: 𭞶 𤏬 𣋃 𦼃 𤺨 𫤤 𬰌 |
| Mandarin: | chuàng chuāng ㄔㄨㄤˋ ㄔㄨㄤ |
| Cantonese: | cong1 cong3 |
| Tang reconstruction: | chriɑ̀ng |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·下平聲·陽·創》創：《說文》曰：傷也，禮曰頭有創則沐今作瘡。初良切，又初亮切，三。 《廣韻·去聲·漾·剏》剏：初也。《說文》曰：造法剏業也。初亮切，四。 《廣韻·去聲·漾·剏》創：上同。又初良切。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·刀部·十》創：〔古文〕戧𠝀𠛲《唐韻》《集韻》《韻會》初良切《正韻》初莊切，𠀤音瘡。《說文》傷也。本作刅，或作創。《徐曰》此正刀創字。言刃所傷也。《前漢·曹參傳》身被七十創。又《前漢·班固敘傳》禮義是創。《註》師古曰：創，始造之，音初良反。又《唐韻》初亮切，瘡去聲。始也，造也。《孟子》創業垂統。又傷也。《前漢·匈奴傳》人民創艾戰𨷖。又懲也。《書·益稷》子創若時。《註》禹自言懲丹朱之惡，不敢慢遊也。又《集韻》千羊切，音鏘。瑲，或作創。瑲瑲，玉聲。又《玉篇》古文瘡字。《禮·曲禮》頭有創，則沐。餘詳疒部十畫。 |
| Fanqie: | 初良 (《廣韻·下平聲·陽·創》) 初亮 (《廣韻·下平聲·陽·創》) 初亮 (《廣韻·去聲·漾·剏》) 初良 (《廣韻·去聲·漾·剏》) |
| Unihan definition: | establish, create; knife cut |
Example usage
| 《論語·憲問》: | 子曰：「為命：裨諶草創之，世叔討論之，行人子羽脩飾之，東里子產潤色之。」 |
| The Master said, "In preparing the governmental notifications, Pi Shen first made the rough draft; Shi Shu examined and discussed its contents; Zi Yu, the manager of foreign intercourse, then polished the style; and, finally, Zi Chan of Dong Li gave it the proper elegance and finish." | |
| 《孟子·梁惠王下》: | 君子創業垂統，為可繼也。 |
| A prince lays the foundation of the inheritance, and hands down the beginning which he has made, doing what may be continued by his successors. | |
| 《禮記·三年問》: | 創鉅者其日久，痛甚者其愈遲，三年者，稱情而立文，所以為至痛極也。 |
| The greater a wound is, the longer it remains; and the more pain it gives, the more slowly is it healed. The mourning of three years, being appointed with its various forms in harmony with the feelings (produced by the occasion of it), was intended to mark the greatest degree of grief. | |
| 《揚子法言》: | 擅楚之月，有漢創業山南，發跡三秦，迫項山東，故天下擅漢：天也。 |
| In the month Chu seized control and divided the empire into eighteen kingdoms, Liu Bang of Han was established in the southern mountains. He set out searching throughout the three kingdoms at the heart of the former Qin, and pursued Xiang Yu to Shandong, and thus the empire was taken by the Han. This was due to Tian. | |
| 《墨子·所染》: | 其友皆好矜奮，創作比周，則家日損，身日危，名日辱，處官失其理矣，則子西、易牙、豎刀1之徒是也。 |
| (On the contrary) if one has for friends none but those who are proud and quarrelsome and who pretend to be intimate, naturally one's family will be reduced to straits, one's person will be more in danger, and one's name more dishonourable every day and one will not be qualified for office. And, examples of such are Zi Xi, Yi Ya, and Shu Diao. | |
| 《尚書·益稷》: | 予創若時，娶于塗山，辛壬癸甲。 |
| I took warning from his course. When I married in Tu-shan, (I remained with my wife only the days) xin, ren, gui, and jia. | |
| 《荀子·禮論》: | 創巨者其日久，痛甚者其愈遲，三年之喪，稱情而立文，所以為至痛極也。 |
| 《說苑·復恩》: | 對曰：「吳子吮此子父之創而殺之於注水之戰，戰不旋踵而死。」 |
| 《新書·審微》: | 令民有自取之心，其創必數年不息。 |
| 《中論·脩本》: | 故君子修德，始乎笄丱，終乎鮐背，創乎夷原，成乎喬嶽。 |
| 《孔子家語·屈節解》: | 若使民有自取之心，其創必數世不息。 |
| 《潛夫論·勸將》: | 前羌始反時，將帥以定令之群，籍富厚之蓄，據列城而氣利勢，權十萬之眾，將勇傑之士，以誅草創新叛散亂之弱虜，擊自至之小寇，不能擒滅，輒為所敗，令遂雲烝起，合從連橫，掃滌并、源，內犯司隸，東寇趙、魏，西鈔蜀、漢，五州殘破，六郡削迹。 |
| 《論衡·幸偶》: | 氣結閼積，聚為癰，潰為疽，創，流血出膿。 |
| 《太玄經·逃》: | 初一，逃水之夷，滅其創迹。 |
| 《風俗通義·五帝》: | 黃帝始制冠冕，垂衣裳，上棟下宇，以避風雨，禮文法度，興事創業。 |
| 《申鑒·時事》: | 厭亂則思治，創難則思靜。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·釋誨》: | 非子享土于善圉，狼瞫取右于禽囚，弓父畢精于筋角，佽非明勇于赴流，壽王創基于格五，東方要幸于談優，上官效力于執蓋，弘羊據相于運籌。 |
| 《鶡冠子·天則》: | 不創不作，與天地合德，節璽相信，如月應日。 |
| 《文子·道原》: | 天下莫柔弱於水，水為道也，廣不可極，深不可測，長極無窮，遠淪無涯，息耗減益，過於不訾，上天為雨露，下地為潤澤，萬物不得不生，百事不得不成，大苞群生而無私好，澤及蚑蟯而不求報，富贍天下而不既，德施百姓而不費，行不可得而窮極，微不可得而把握，擊之不創，刺之不傷，斬之不斷，灼之不熏，淖約流循而不可靡散，利貫金石，強淪天下，有餘不足，任天下取與，稟受萬物而無所先後，無私無公，與天地洪同，是謂至德。 |
| 《韓非子·說林上》: | 隰斯彌見田成子，田成子與登臺四望，三面皆暢，南望，隰子家之樹蔽之，田成子亦不言，隰子歸，使人伐之，斧離數創，隰子止之，其相室曰：「何變之數也？」 |
| 《管子·桓公問》: | 對曰：「勿創勿作，時至而隨，毋以私好惡害公正，察民所惡以自為戒。」 |
| 《六韜·發啟》: | 全勝不鬥，大兵無創，與鬼神通，微哉！ |
| 《淮南子·覽冥訓》: | 是故質壯輕足者為甲卒，千里之外，家老羸弱，悽愴於內，廝徒馬圉，軵車奉餉，道路遼遠，霜雪亟集，短褐不完，人羸車弊，泥塗至膝，相攜於道，奮首于路，身枕格而死，所謂兼國有地者，伏尸數十萬，破車以千百數，傷弓弩矛戟矢石之創者，扶舉于路，故世至於枕人頭，食人肉，菹人肝，飲人血，甘之於芻豢故。 |
| 《呂氏春秋·七月紀》: | 命理，瞻傷察創，視折審斷。 |
| 《史記·秦始皇本紀》: | 今陛下創大業，建萬世之功，固非愚儒所知。 |
| 《國語·越語下》: | 今君王未盈而溢，未盛而驕，不勞而矜其功，天時不作而先為人客，人事不起而創為之始，此逆于天而不和于人。 |
| 《晏子春秋》: | 在上治民，足以尊君，在下蒞修，足以變人，身無所咎，行無所創，可謂榮矣。 |
| 《戰國策》: | 秦王復擊軻，被八創。 |
| 《鹽鐵論·非鞅》: | 雖有裨諶之草創，無子產之潤色，有文、武之規矩，而無周、呂之鑿枘，則功業不成。 |
| 《列女傳·齊義繼母》: | 當宣王時，有人簡死於道者，吏訊之，被一創，二子兄弟立其傍，吏問之，兄曰：「我殺之。」 |
| 《春秋穀梁傳》: | 吳子謁伐楚至巢，入其門，門人射吳子，有矢創，反捨而卒。 |
| 《漢書·敘傳下》: | 叔孫奉常，與時抑揚，稅介免冑，禮義是創。 |
| 《前漢紀》: | 羽亦被十餘創。 |
| 《東觀漢記·公孫述》: | 然軍敗復合，創愈復戰，何則？ |
| 《後漢書·律曆下》: | 取象金火，革命創制，治曆明時，應天順民，湯、武其盛也。 |
| 《周禮·冬官考工記》: | 知者創物。 |
| 《焦氏易林·大畜之》: | 損：兩虎爭鬭，服創無處。 |
| 《詩說·魯》: | 周公憂之，作此詩以貽成王，欲王省悟以備殷，全篇以鳥之育子成巢者，比先王之創業而代之為言也。 |
| 《說文解字·肉部》: | 肒：搔生創也。 |
| 《釋名·釋宮室》: | 𥨫，造也，造創食物也。 |
| 《方言·第八》: | 𪈳黃，自關而東謂之創鶊。 |
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