蕩

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See also: 荡
蕩 U+8569, 蕩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8569
← 蕨
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蕪 →

Translingual

Han character

蕩 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿水日竹 (TEAH), four-corner 44127, composition ⿱艹湯)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1058, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32002
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1521, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3295, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+8569

Chinese

trad. 蕩/盪/蘯
simp. 荡*
alternative forms 湯／汤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
湯 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪 *l̥ʰaːŋ
薚 *l̥ʰaːŋ
簜 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒 *l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩 *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙 *l̥ʰaːŋs
啺 *l'aːŋ
碭 *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸 *l'aːŋʔ
愓 *l'aːŋʔ
璗 *l'aːŋʔ
崵 *l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿 *l'aːŋs
暢 *l̥ʰaŋs
畼 *l̥ʰaŋs
腸 *l'aŋ
場 *l'aŋ
傷 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤 *hljaŋ
觴 *hljaŋ
慯 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓 *hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲 *hljaŋ
陽 *laŋ
楊 *laŋ
揚 *laŋ
瘍 *laŋ
煬 *laŋ, *laŋs
鍚 *laŋ
暘 *laŋ
颺 *laŋ, *laŋs
昜 *laŋ
輰 *laŋ
敭 *laŋ
鰑 *laŋ
諹 *laŋ, *laŋs
瑒 *laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉 *laŋ
餳 *ljaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 湯 (OC *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tǒng/tōng - literary;
  • tňg/tn̄g - vernacular.
Rime
Character 蕩 蕩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 唐 (101) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 徒朗切 他浪切
Baxter dangX thangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/daŋX/ /tʰaŋH/
Li
Rong 		/dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Wang
Li 		/dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dàng tàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dong6 tong3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蕩 蕩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		dàng dàng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dangX › ‹ dangH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*N.rˁaŋʔ/ /*lˁaŋ-s/
English beat furiously (of the heart) throw out, purify from

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 蕩 蕩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14561 14569
Phonetic
component 		昜 昜
Rime
group 		陽 陽
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		儻 蕩
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ʰaːŋs/ /*l'aːŋʔ/

Definitions

蕩

  1. to sway; to swing
    蕩槳／荡桨  ―  dàng jiǎng  ―  to swing an oar
  2. (literary, or in compounds) to wash away; to cleanse
  3. (literary, or in compounds) to clear away; to eliminate
    傾家蕩產／倾家荡产  ―  qīngjiādàngchǎn  ―  to exhaust all of a family's financial resources; to break the bank
  4. to wander; to roam
    遊蕩／游荡  ―  yóudàng  ―  to loaf about; to wander
    一天到晚在街上蕩來蕩去 [MSC, trad.]
    一天到晚在街上荡来荡去 [MSC, simp.]
    yītiāndàowǎn zài jiē shàng dàng lái dàng qù
    to loiter on the streets all day
  5. (literary, or in compounds) vast and wide; broad and expansive
  6. (literary, or in compounds) flat; level; smooth
  7. (literary, or in compounds) unconstrained and doing whatever one wants
    蕩婦／荡妇  ―  dàngfù  ―  loose woman; slut

Synonyms

  • (to sway):
  • (to wash away): 沖洗／冲洗 (chōngxǐ)
  • (to clear away):
  • (to wander):
  • (vast and wide):

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

蕩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 蕩 (MC dangX|thangH). Recorded as Middle Korean 타ᇰ〯 (thǎng) (Yale: thǎng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

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:

Wikisource

蕩 (eumhun 방탕할 탕 (bangtanghal tang))

  1. Hanja form? of 탕 (“wander”).

Compounds

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

蕩: Hán Nôm readings: đãng, đảng, đẵng, thững, dãng, vảng

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