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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木田 (DDW), four-corner 45996, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 533, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14949
  • Dae Jaweon: page 921, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1227, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+68DF

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*toːŋ
*toːŋ
*toːŋ
*toːŋ
*toːŋ, *toːŋs
*toːŋ, *toːŋʔ
*toːŋ, *toːŋs
*toːŋ
*toːŋ
*toːŋ
*toːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *toːŋs) : semantic  (wood) + phonetic  (OC *toːŋ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (5)
Final () (1)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/tuŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tuŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/təwŋH/
Li
Rong
/tuŋH/
Wang
Li
/tuŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dòng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2448
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*toːŋs/

Definitions

  1. (possibly obsolete) the main beams supporting a house
  2. Classifier for buildings.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
とう
Grade: S
on'yomi
Kanji in this term
むね
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Counter

(hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

  1. buildings

Noun

(hiragana とう, romaji )

  1. large building

(hiragana むね, romaji mune)

  1. ridge of a roof

Suffix

(hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

  1. building

Korean

Hanja

(dong) (hangeul , revised dong, McCune-Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đống)

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