棟

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See also: 栋, and 楝
棟 U+68DF, 棟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68DF
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 棠 →

Translingual

Han character

棟 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木田 (DDW), four-corner 45996, composition ⿰木東)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 533, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14949
  • Dae Jaweon: page 921, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1227, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+68DF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (東) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
東 *toːŋ
菄 *toːŋ
鶇 *toːŋ
倲 *toːŋ
涷 *toːŋ, *toːŋs
蝀 *toːŋ, *toːŋʔ
凍 *toːŋ, *toːŋs
鯟 *toːŋ
崠 *toːŋ
埬 *toːŋ
棟 *toːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *toːŋs) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 東 (OC *toːŋ).

Etymology 1

trad. 棟
simp. 栋

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tòng - literary;
  • tàng - vernacular.
Rime
Character 棟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 多貢切
Baxter tuwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tuŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tuŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/təwŋH/
Li
Rong 		/tuŋH/
Wang
Li 		/tuŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/tuŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dung3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 棟
Reading # 1/1
No. 2448
Phonetic
component 		東
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		涷
Old
Chinese 		/*toːŋs/

Definitions

棟

  1. main beam supporting a house; ridgepole
  2. (literary) house; building
  3. Classifier for buildings. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  4. (figurative) important person; pillars of the state
  5. (Sichuanese) mountain ridge; mountain peak
  6. a surname: Dong

Synonyms

  • (house):

Compounds

See also

  • 嶺／岭 (lǐng, “mountain ridge, mountain peak”)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 棟 – see 戙 (“Cantonese: to make erect”).
(This character is a variant form of 戙).

References

  • 蓝勇. 第十三章：历史时期西南综合文化区的划分. 《西南历史文化地理》. 西南师范大学出版社. 1997. →ISBN.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
棟
とう
Grade: S
on'yomi
Kanji in this term
棟
むね
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Kanji

棟

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: つ (tsu)、つう (tsū)
  • Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: むね (mune, 棟, Jōyō)、むな (muna, 棟, Jōyō †)

Counter

棟(とう) or 棟(むね) • (-tō or -mune) 

  1. buildings

Synonyms

Noun

棟(とう) • (tō) 

  1. large building

棟(むね) • (mune) 

  1. ridge of a roof

Suffix

棟(とう) • (-tō) 

  1. building

Korean

Hanja

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

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Tày

Han character

棟 (transliteration needed)

  1. Nôm form of đông.

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

棟: Hán Nôm readings: đống

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