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同
同
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Han character
同 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月一口 (BMR), four-corner 77220, composition ⿵冂𠮛)
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 同
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (同) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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 |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 凡 (“all”) + 口 (“mouth”) – together.
Etymology 1
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simp. and trad. |
同 | |
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| alt. forms |
仝 冈 |
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Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): tung4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thùng
- Min Dong (BUC): dùng
- Min Nan (POJ): tâng / tông
- Wu (Wiktionary): don (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
- Wade-Giles: t'ung2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tongr
- IPA (key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: tung4
- Yale: tùhng
- Cantonese Pinyin: tung4
- IPA (key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thùng
- Hakka Romanization System: tungˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: tung2
- IPA: /tʰuŋ¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: dùng
- IPA (key): /tuŋ⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: don (T3)
- IPA (key): /d̻ʊŋ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 同 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| 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 |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 同 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
tóng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ duwng › |
| Old Chinese |
/*lˤoŋ/ |
| English | together, join |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 同 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12446 |
| Phonetic component |
同 |
| Rime group |
東 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
同 |
| Old Chinese |
/*doːŋ/ |
| Notes | 甲金文象有節筒管與口協合，如此方能音律諧和，爲筒（簫）初文 |
Definitions
同
- same; identical
- together; with each other
- with (indicating accompaniment or relationship)
- and; as well as
- used to show comparison
- (Cantonese) for
Synonyms
- (and):
| Dialectal synonyms of 和 (“and”) | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 與、及 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 和 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 和、跟 |
| Taiwan | 和、跟 | |
| Jinan | 和、跟、給 | |
| Xi'an | 跟、連 | |
| Wuhan | 跟 | |
| Chengdu | 跟、給 | |
| Yangzhou | 跟、交 | |
| Hefei | 跟 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 同、同埋 |
| Hong Kong | 同、同埋 | |
| Taishan | 同埋 | |
| Yangjiang | 鄧、同 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 跟、同 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 同 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 摎 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 同 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 摎 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 同 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 摎 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 和 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 和、跟 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 邀 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 共 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 佮 |
| Xiamen | 佮 | |
| Zhangzhou | 佮 | |
| Taipei | 佮 | |
| Malaysia | 佮 | |
| Chaozhou | 佮、共 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 搭 |
| Suzhou | 搭 | |
| Wenzhou | 搭、伉 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 跟 |
| Shuangfeng | 跟、同 | |
Compounds
Derived terms from 同
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Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 同 – see 衕. (This character, 同, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 衕.) |
Notes:
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Japanese
Kanji
同
Readings
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
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| 同 |
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どう Grade: 2 |
| kan'yōon |
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 同 (duwng, “same”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 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
同 • (dong) (hangeul 동)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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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