洞

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order

洞 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: page 620, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17386
• Dae Jaweon: page 1016, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1607, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6D1E

• Unihan data for U+FA05

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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, “deep hole; pit”) and Jingpho kha-thung (“well, pit”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

洞

1. hole; cavity; cave
2. (literary, or in compounds) thorough; penetrating
3. the numeral zero (used in radio communications in aviation and by the military)
4. dong, a submunicipal administrative division in North and South Korea

Synonyms

• (hole):

• (zero):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

洞

1. Only used in 澒洞／𭱊洞 (hòngtóng) and 洪洞 (Hóngtóng, “Hongtong”).

References

• “洞”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. Cave, den, grotto

Readings

• Go-on: ずう (zū)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yō-on: どう (dō, Jōyō)
• Kun: うつろ (utsuro, 洞); うつろ (utsuro, 洞ろ); ふかい (fukai); ほがらか (hogaraka); ほら (hora, 洞, Jōyō); みぬく (minuku)

Compounds

Korean

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 洞 (MC duwngH).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

洞

Wikisource

洞 (eumhun 골 동 (gol dong))

1. Hanja form^? of 동 (“hole; cavity; cave”).
2. Hanja form^? of 동 (“dong, a submunicipal administrative division in North and South Korea”).

Compounds

Etymology 2

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

洞 (eumhun 밝을 통 (balgeul tong))

1. Hanja form^? of 통 (“bright; thorough; penetrating”).

Compounds

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

洞: Hán Nôm readings: đọng, động, đùng, dộng, dọng, đỗng

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