涷

涷 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水木田 (EDW), four-corner 3519₆, composition ⿰氵東)

1. rainstorm

• 𠍀

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 628, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17600
• Dae Jaweon: page 1030, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1643, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6DB7

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *toːŋ, *toːŋs) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 東 (OC *toːŋ, “east”)

Hmong-Mien; compare Proto-Mien *mbluŋC (“rain”), which possibly relates to Proto-Hmong *m-noŋC (“rain”) (Schuessler, 2007).

涷

1. (literary) rainstorm; torrential rain

   • 廣開兮天門，
     紛吾乘兮玄雲。
     令飄風兮先驅，
     使涷雨兮灑塵。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     广开兮天门，
     纷吾乘兮玄云。
     令飘风兮先驱，
     使𰛒雨兮洒尘。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Guǎngkāi xī tiānmén,
     Fēn wú chéng xī xuányún.
     Lìng piāofēng xī xiānqū,
     Shǐ dōngyǔ xī sǎ chén.

     Wide open is the Gate of Heaven;
     Chaotically I ride the dark clouds.
     I command the whirl-winds to advance;
     I order the torrential rain to sprinkle the dust.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): とう (tō)、つ (tsu)
• Kun: にわかあめ (niwakāme)

涷 • (dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune–Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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