洞

洞 U+6D1E, 洞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D1E
← 洝
[U+6D1D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 洟 →
[U+6D1F]

Translingual

Han character

洞 (radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水月一口 (EBMR), four-corner 37120, composition ⿰氵同)

Derived characters
  • 霘, 𪔦, 𢞉

References
  • KangXi: page 620, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17386
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1016, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1607, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6D1E

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 洞

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (同) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鮦 *duʔ, *doːŋ, *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
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

Etymology
“hole; cavity” > “penetrating; thorough; zero”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dwa(ː)ŋ (“hole; orifice; cave; pit; well”). Cognate with Burmese တွင်း (twang:), Tibetan དོང (dong) and Jingpho kha-thung (“well, pit”).

Pronunciation 1
Note:
  • dang7 - vernacular;
  • tong7 - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 洞
Mandarin Beijing /tuŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /tuŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /tuŋ⁵³/
Jinan /tuŋ²¹/
Qingdao /təŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tuŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /tuŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /tuə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /tuŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /tũn¹³/
Ürümqi /tuŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /toŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /toŋ¹³/
Guiyang /toŋ²¹³/
Kunming /toŋ¹/
Nanjing /toŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /təŋ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /tuəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /tuŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /tũŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /doŋ²³/
Suzhou /doŋ³¹/
Hangzhou /doŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /doŋ²²/
Hui Shexian /tʰʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /tan¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /toŋ⁵⁵/
/toŋ¹¹/
Xiangtan /dən²¹/
Gan Nanchang /tʰuŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /tʰuŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʰuŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /toŋ²²/
Nanning /tuŋ²²/
Hong Kong /tuŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tɔŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɔyŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /taŋ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdoŋ³³/
/ʔdoŋ²³/ ～房
Rime
Character 洞
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒弄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /duŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /duŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /duŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /duŋH/
Wang
Li		 /duŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱuŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dòng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 洞
Reading # 2/2
No. 12469
Phonetic
component		 同
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 洞
Old
Chinese		 /*doːŋs/

Definitions

洞

  1. hole; cavity; cave
  2. thorough; penetrating
  3. the numeral zero (when reading numbers in certain situations)
  4. dong, a submunicipal administrative division in North and South Korea
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 孔 (“hole”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 孔, 洞, 穴
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 孔, 洞, 孔洞, 空洞, 空穴
Mandarin Beijing 窟窿
Jinan 窟窿
Xi'an 窟窿子, 窟窿
Wuhan 窟窿, 窟眼, 洞洞, 洞
Chengdu 窟窿, 洞洞, 洞
Yangzhou 洞
Hefei 窟窿, 洞
Cantonese Guangzhou 窿, 咕窿
Hong Kong 窿, 咕窿
Gan Nanchang 洞
Hakka Meixian 窿仔, 窿空仔
Jin Taiyuan 窟窿, 窟子
Min Bei Jian'ou 川
Min Dong Fuzhou 空空
Min Nan Xiamen 空, 空口
Quanzhou 空
Zhangzhou 空口
Taipei 空
Philippines (Manila) 空
Chaozhou 空
Wu Suzhou 洞
Wenzhou 洞, 窟, 窟窿
Xiang Changsha 洞
Shuangfeng 眼貢, 洞

Compounds
Derived terms from 洞

Pronunciation 2
Rime
Character 洞
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒紅切
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 洞
Reading # 1/2
No. 12453
Phonetic
component		 同
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 同
Old
Chinese		 /*doːŋ/

Definitions

洞

  1. Only used in 澒洞 and 洪洞 (Hóngtóng).

Japanese

Kanji
洞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. Cave, den, grotto

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Korean

Hanja

洞 • (dong, tong) (hangeul 동, 통)

  1. Neighborhood, an administrative division in South Korea.

Vietnamese

Han character

洞 (động)

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