đồng

See also: đóng, đông, Đông, đọng, động, and Appendix:Variations of "dong"

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Tai; compare Thai ทุ่ง (tûng). Probably related to Southern Vietnamese đùng.

Noun

(classifier cánh) đồng (垌)

  1. field
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Etymology 2

Likely a Sino-Vietnamese word from 童 (“child; (dialectal) shaman”); see there for more.

Noun

đồng

  1. (only in compounds) medium; sorcerer
Derived terms
Derived terms
  • đồng bóng
  • đồng cốt
  • lên đồng

Etymology 3
Chemical element
Cu Previous: niken (Ni)
Next: kẽm (Zn)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 銅 (“copper”), from Middle Chinese 銅 (MC duŋ).

Noun

đồng

  1. copper
  2. a currency
    đồng yên Nhật
    the Japanese yen
    đồng đô-la Mĩ
    the US dollar
  3. dong, the unit of currency in Vietnam; Vietnamese dollar. Symbol: ₫.
  4. (colloquial, chiefly Southern Vietnam) a thousand dongs
    hai đồng ― two thousand dongs
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Descendants
  • → Cantonese: 盾 (teon5)
  • → English: dong
  • → Japanese: ドン (don)
  • → Korean: 동 (dong)
  • → Mandarin: 盾 (dùn)
  • → Russian: донг (dong)

Etymology 4

Sino-Vietnamese word from 同.

Adjective

đồng

  1. (only in compounds) same
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