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燙
燙
See also: 烫
Translingual
Han character
燙 (radical 86 火+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水竹火 (EHF), four-corner 36809)
References
- KangXi: page 684, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19435
- Dae Jaweon: page 1096, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2238, character 3
- Unihan data for U+71D9
Chinese
| trad. | 燙 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 烫 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 湯 | *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ |
| 踼 | *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs |
| 蝪 | *l̥ʰaːŋ |
| 薚 | *l̥ʰaːŋ |
| 簜 | *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ |
| 盪 | *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ |
| 偒 | *l̥ʰaːŋʔ |
| 蕩 | *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ |
| 燙 | *l̥ʰaːŋs |
| 啺 | *l'aːŋ |
| 碭 | *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs |
| 婸 | *l'aːŋʔ |
| 愓 | *l'aːŋʔ |
| 璗 | *l'aːŋʔ |
| 崵 | *l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ |
| 逿 | *l'aːŋs |
| 暢 | *l̥ʰaŋs |
| 畼 | *l̥ʰaŋs |
| 腸 | *l'aŋ |
| 場 | *l'aŋ |
| 傷 | *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs |
| 殤 | *hljaŋ |
| 觴 | *hljaŋ |
| 慯 | *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs |
| 禓 | *hljaŋ, *laŋ |
| 塲 | *hljaŋ |
| 陽 | *laŋ |
| 楊 | *laŋ |
| 揚 | *laŋ |
| 瘍 | *laŋ |
| 煬 | *laŋ, *laŋs |
| 鍚 | *laŋ |
| 暘 | *laŋ |
| 颺 | *laŋ, *laŋs |
| 昜 | *laŋ |
| 輰 | *laŋ |
| 敭 | *laŋ |
| 鰑 | *laŋ |
| 諹 | *laŋ, *laŋs |
| 瑒 | *laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ |
| 鸉 | *laŋ |
| 餳 | *ljaːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰaːŋs) : phonetic 湯 (OC *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ) + semantic 火.
Etymology
From 湯 (OC *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ, “hot water”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): tong3
- Min Dong (BUC): táung / táuk / tâung
- Min Nan (POJ): thǹg / thòng
- Wu (Wiktionary): thaan (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄤˋ
- Wade-Giles: t'ang4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tanq
- IPA (key): /tʰɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: tong3
- Yale: tong
- Cantonese Pinyin: tong3
- IPA (key): /tʰɔːŋ³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: táung / táuk / tâung
- IPA (key): /tʰɔuŋ²¹³/, /tʰɔuʔ²⁴/, /tʰɔuŋ²⁴²/
- Note: táung, táuk - to put into boiling water, to scald; tâung - to heat up, to warm.
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thǹg / thòng
- Tâi-lô: thǹg / thòng
- Phofsit Daibuun: tngx, toxng
- IPA (Xiamen): /tʰŋ̍²¹/, /tʰɔŋ²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰŋ̍⁴¹/, /tʰɔŋ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰŋ̍²¹/, /tʰɔŋ²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /tʰŋ̍¹¹/, /tʰɔŋ¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰŋ̍²¹/, /tʰɔŋ²¹/
- Note: thǹg - vernacular; thòng - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: thaan (T2)
- IPA (key): /tʰɑ̃³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
Definitions
燙
- hot (because of high temperature)
- to warm; to heat something up (using hot water or fire)
- to burn; to injure (with high temperature)
- (cooking) to blanch
- (chiefly Cantonese) to iron
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
燙
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
燙 • (tang) (hangeul 탕, revised tang, McCune-Reischauer t'ang, Yale thang)
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Vietnamese
Han character
燙 (năng, nãng, nắng)
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