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Translingual

Han character

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

  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.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*duʔ, *doŋʔ
*tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
*tʰoːŋ, *doːŋs
*tʰoːŋ
*doːŋ
*zlon, *doːŋ
*doːŋ
*doːŋ
*doːŋ, *doːŋs
*doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
*doːŋ, *doːŋs
*doːŋ, *doːŋs
*doːŋ
*doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
*doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
*doːŋ
*doːŋ, *doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
*doːŋ, *doːŋs
*doːŋ
*doːŋ, *doːŋs
*doːŋʔ
*doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
*doːŋs
*doːŋs
*doːŋs
*doːŋs

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (7) (7)
Final () (1) (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12452 12476
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːŋ/ /*doːŋs/

Noun

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

Compounds

  • 改革芒筒

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
つつ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana つつ, romaji tsutsu)

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

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
どう
Grade: S
Irregular

From ().

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana どう, romaji )

  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

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(đồng)

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