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唐

唐

唐 U+5510, 唐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5510
← 唏
[U+550F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 唑 →
[U+5511]

Translingual

Han character

唐 (radical 30 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈中口 (ILR), four-corner 00267, composition ⿸广⿱肀口)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 192, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3709
  • Dae Jaweon: page 411, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 633, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5510

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 唐

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唐 *ɡl'aːŋ
煻 *l'aːŋ
糖 *l'aːŋ
搪 *l'aːŋ
蓎 *l'aːŋ
瑭 *l'aːŋ
餹 *l'aːŋ
篖 *l'aːŋ
螗 *l'aːŋ
塘 *l'aːŋ
鶶 *l'aːŋ
赯 *l'aːŋ
磄 *l'aːŋ
溏 *l'aːŋ
傏 *l'aːŋ
鎕 *l'aːŋ
榶 *l'aːŋ
嵣 *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚 *kraːŋ
賡 *kraːŋ
鹒 *kraːŋ
康 *kʰlaːŋ
穅 *kʰlaːŋ
糠 *kʰlaːŋ
槺 *kʰlaːŋ
漮 *kʰlaːŋ
躿 *kʰlaːŋ
慷 *kʰlaːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡl'aːŋ) : phonetic 庚 ‎(OC *kraːŋ) + semantic 口 ‎(“mouth”).

唐 and 庚 were near-homophones in Old Chinese (唐 *(kə)-rˤaŋ, 庚 *kˤraŋ; the OC initial for 唐 is less certain). 口 "mouth" refers to the older meaning "to exaggerate, to boast."

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 唐
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒郎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /daŋ/
Li
Rong		 /dɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /dɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 táng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 唐 唐 唐
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tāng táng táng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thang › ‹ dang › ‹ dang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*r̥ˤaŋ/ /*[N-]rˤaŋ/ /*[N].rˤaŋ/
English name of first Shang ruler exaggerate; great 棠棣 cherry tree

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 唐
Reading # 1/1
No. 3959
Phonetic
component		 庚
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 唐
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡl'aːŋ/

Definitions

唐

  1. Tang Dynasty
  2. A surname​.
  3. (archaic) to exaggerate, old variant of 螗

Compounds

  • 半唐番 (bàntángfān, “half Chinese" person”)
  • 唐人街 (tángrénjiē, “Chinatown”)

Japanese

Kanji

唐

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
唐
とう
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

唐 ‎(hiragana とう, romaji tō, historical hiragana たう)

  1. the Tang Dynasty, which ruled China from 618 to 907

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
唐
から
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

唐 ‎(hiragana から, romaji kara)

  1. (formal, dated) China; Cathay

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

唐 • ‎(dang) (hangeul 당, McCune-Reischauer tang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

唐 (đường, đằng, đàng, giềng)

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