桐

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桐 U+6850, 桐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6850
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 桑 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

桐 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木月一口 (DBMR), four-corner 47920, composition ⿰木同)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 525, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14770
  • Dae Jaweon: page 914, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1198, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+6850

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 桐

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doːŋ) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 同 (OC *doːŋ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tông - literary;
  • tâng/thâng - vernacular.
Note:
  • tong5 - literary;
  • tang5 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 桐
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
Baxter duwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/duŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/duŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/duŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dəwŋ/
Li
Rong 		/duŋ/
Wang
Li 		/duŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/dʱuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tóng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		tung4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 桐
Reading # 1/1
No. 12449
Phonetic
component 		同
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		同
Old
Chinese 		/*doːŋ/

Definitions

桐

  1. various trees related to the tung tree (now distinguished as oil-tung 油桐), particularly paulownia
  2. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

桐

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. paulownia

Readings

  • Go-on: ずう (zū)←づう (duu, historical)
  • Kan-on: とう (tō)
  • Kan’yō-on: どう (dō)
  • Kun: きり (kiri, 桐)
  • Nanori: ひさ (hisa)、き (ki)

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
桐
きり
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. The tree may have been imported from China prior to the Nara period.[1]

The term might be from 切り (kiri, “cutting”), from the way that the tree is quick to send out shoots after being cut.[2]

Some sources[2] also speculate that this might be from some term 木理 (*kiri, “wood grain”) in reference to the desirable grain of this wood. However, 木理 is only attested with the reading mokuri, not kiri; also, the term is not attested until the 1830s, before which the Japanese terms for wood grain were 木目 (mokume, from the mid-1500s) or 木目 (kime, from the 1200s).

Pronunciation

Noun

桐(きり) or 桐(キリ) • (kiri) 

  1. the paulownia tree, Paulownia tomentosa
    Hypernym: 胡麻の葉草 (goma no hagusa)
  2. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of paulownia flowers and leaves
  3. (card games) the paulownia suit in a hanafuda deck, representing the month of December
    Hyponym: 桐に鳳凰 (kiri ni hōō)
    Coordinate terms: 松, 梅, 桜, 藤, 菖蒲, 牡丹, 萩, 芒, 菊, 紅葉, 柳, 桐
  4. (colloquial) a koto (Japanese zither)
    from the wood of the paulownia used as the soundboard
    Synonym: 琴 (koto)
  5. (colloquial) money, especially gold coins such as the 大判 (ōban) and the 小判 (koban)
    from the markings of paulownia crests on the coins

Derived terms

Derived terms

Idioms

Proper noun

桐(きり) • (Kiri) 

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

References

  1. ^ “桐”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 桐 at Nihon Jiten (in Japanese)
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  5. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

桐 (eumhun 오동나무 동 (odongnamu dong))

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Tày

Han character

桐 (transliteration needed)

  1. Nôm form of toòng.

References

  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

桐: Hán Nôm readings: đồng

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