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筒

筒

Translingual

Han character

筒 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹月一口 (HBMR), four-corner 88227, composition ⿱⺮同)

  1. thick piece of bamboo
  2. pipe

References

  • KangXi: page 883, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26004
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2965, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+7B52

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 筒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (同) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鮦 *duʔ, *doŋʔ
侗 *tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
恫 *tʰoːŋ, *doːŋs
痌 *tʰoːŋ
同 *doːŋ
仝 *zlon, *doːŋ
銅 *doːŋ
桐 *doːŋ
峒 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
硐 *doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
筒 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
洞 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
烔 *doːŋ
挏 *doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
酮 *doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
鲖 *doːŋ
眮 *doːŋ, *doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
衕 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
哃 *doːŋ
絧 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
姛 *doːŋʔ
詷 *doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
胴 *doːŋs
駧 *doːŋs
迵 *doːŋs
戙 *doːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *doːŋ, *doːŋs) : semantic ⺮ ‎(“bamboo”) + phonetic 同 ‎(OC *doːŋ) – a bamboo pipe.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 筒 筒
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 東 (1) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 徒紅切 徒弄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /duŋ/ /duŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /duŋ/ /duŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /duŋ/ /duŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəwŋ/ /dəwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /duŋ/ /duŋH/
Wang
Li		 /duŋ/ /duŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱuŋ/ /dʱuŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tóng dòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 筒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tǒng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ duwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lˤoŋ/
English tube

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 筒 筒
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12452 12476
Phonetic
component		 同 同
Rime
group		 東 東
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 同 洞
Old
Chinese		 /*doːŋ/ /*doːŋs/

Noun

筒

  1. (affix) a section of bamboo
  2. (affix) hollow tube; pipe
  3. (affix) barrel; can; tin

Compounds

  • 改革芒筒

Japanese

Kanji

筒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
筒
つつ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

筒 ‎(hiragana つつ, romaji tsutsu)

  1. tube
  2. hub (central part of a wheel)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
筒
どう
Grade: S
Irregular

From 胴 ‎(dō).

Pronunciation

Noun

筒 ‎(hiragana どう, romaji dō)

  1. hub (central part of a wheel)
Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

筒 • ‎(tong) (hangeul 통, revised tong, McCune-Reischauer t'ong, Yale thong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筒 (đồng)

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