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Chinese
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a pond; pool; wash a pond; pool; wash; squander; sweep away; move; shake; dissolute
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a pond; pool; wash a pond; pool; wash; squander; sweep away; move; shake; dissolute
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trad. (蕩蕩/盪盪)
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蕩/盪
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蕩/盪
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simp. (荡荡)
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荡
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荡
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Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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蕩
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Reading #
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1/2
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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dàng
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Middle Chinese
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‹ dangX ›
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Old Chinese
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/*N.rˁaŋʔ/
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English
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beat furiously (of the heart)
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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蕩
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Reading #
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2/2
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No.
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14569
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Phonetic component
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昜
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Rime group
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陽
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Rime subdivision
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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蕩
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Old Chinese
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/*l'aːŋʔ/
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Adjective
蕩蕩
- (literary, ideophonic) vast; broad; spacious (and empty)
- (literary, ideophonic) generous; magnanimous
- (literary, ideophonic, of water) gushing; surging; rushing
- (literary, ideophonic) unrestrained; unconstrained
- (literary, ideophonic) floating; drifting; swaying
- (literary, ideophonic) bright and clean; luminous
Derived terms
Japanese
Etymology
/tautau/ → /tɔːtɔː/ → /toːtoː/
From Middle Chinese 蕩蕩 (MC dangX dangX).
Due to some similarity in meaning in the source Chinese and further conflation in Japanese, this term is variously spelled either 蕩蕩 or 湯湯. Note that the difference is the presence or absence of the radical 艹 at the top of each character.
Pronunciation
Adjective
蕩蕩 • (tōtō) ←たうたう (tautau)?†-tari (adnominal 蕩蕩とした (tōtō to shita) or 蕩蕩たる (tōtō taru), adverbial 蕩蕩と (tōtō to) or 蕩蕩として (tōtō to shite))
- (uncommon, literary) spacious, grandiose
- (uncommon, literary) level and peaceful
- (uncommon, literary) gushing, surging, rushing
- (uncommon, literary) gentle
- (uncommon, literary) disordered, unconstrained
References
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN