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U+540C, 同
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-540C

[U+540B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+540D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 30, +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月一口 (BMR), four-corner 77220, composition𠮛)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 175, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3294
  • Dae Jaweon: page 389, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 578, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+540C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*duʔ, *doːŋ, *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, *doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
*doːŋ, *doːŋs
*doːŋ
*doːŋ, *doːŋs
*doːŋʔ
*doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
*doːŋs
*doːŋs
*doːŋs
*doːŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (all) +  (mouth) – together.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
variant forms

Pronunciation


Note:
  • tâng - vernacular;
  • tông - literary.
Note:
  • dang5 - vernacular;
  • tong5 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (7)
Final () (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/duŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/duŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəwŋ/
Li
Rong
/duŋ/
Wang
Li
/duŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tóng
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
tóng
Middle
Chinese
‹ duwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*lˁoŋ/
English together, join

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 # 1/1
No. 12446
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*doːŋ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. same; identical
  2. together; with each other
  3. with (indicating accompaniment or relationship)
  4. and; as well as
  5. used to show comparison
  6. (Cantonese) for
Synonyms
  • (and):
Dialectal synonyms of (“and”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese ,
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)
Mandarin Beijing ,
Taiwan ,
Jinan , ,
Xi'an ,
Wuhan
Chengdu ,
Yangzhou ,
Hefei
Cantonese Guangzhou , 同埋
Hong Kong , 同埋
Taishan 同埋
Yangjiang ,
Gan Nanchang ,
Hakka Meixian
Miaoli (N. Sixian)
Liudui (S. Sixian)
Hsinchu (Hailu)
Dongshi (Dabu)
Hsinchu (Raoping)
Yunlin (Zhao'an)
Jin Taiyuan ,
Min Bei Jian'ou
Min Dong Fuzhou
Min Nan Xiamen ,
Quanzhou ,
Zhangzhou
Taipei
Penang
Singapore
Philippines (Manila) ,
Chaozhou ,
Wu Shanghai
Suzhou
Wenzhou ,
Xiang Changsha
Shuangfeng ,

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“passageway; lane; alley; diarrhoea”).
(This character, , is the simplified and variant traditional form of .)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
どう
Grade: 2
kan’yōon

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (duwng, same).

Pronunciation

Prefix

(hiragana どう, rōmaji dō-)

  1. same

Descendants

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 한가지 (han-gaji dong))

  1. Hanja form? of (same; identical).

Vietnamese

Han character

(đồng, đùng, đang)

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References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
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