筒

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筒 U+7B52, 筒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B52
← 筑
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 筓 →

Translingual

Han character

筒 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹月一口 (HBMR), four-corner 88227, composition ⿱𥫗同)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 883, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26004
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2965, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+7B52

Chinese

trad. 筒
simp. # 筒
alternative forms 筩／筒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (同) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鮦 *duʔ, *doːŋ, *doŋʔ
侗 *tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
恫 *tʰoːŋ, *doːŋs
痌 *tʰoːŋ
同 *doːŋ
仝 *zlon, *doːŋ
銅 *doːŋ
桐 *doːŋ
峒 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
硐 *doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
筒 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
洞 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
烔 *doːŋ
挏 *doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
酮 *doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
鲖
眮 *doːŋ, *doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
衕 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
哃 *doːŋ
絧 *doːŋ, *doːŋs
姛 *doːŋʔ
詷 *doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
胴 *doːŋs
駧 *doːŋs
迵 *doːŋs
戙 *doːŋs

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

Pronunciation

Note:
  • dùng - literary;
  • dè̤ng - vernacular.
Note:
  • tông - literary;
  • tâng - vernacular.
Note: dang6 - dialectal ("barrel, can").
Rime
Character 筒 筒
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 東 (1) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 徒紅切 徒弄切
Baxter duwng duwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/duŋ/ /duŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/duŋ/ /duŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/duŋ/ /duŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/dəwŋ/ /dəwŋH/
Li
Rong 		/duŋ/ /duŋH/
Wang
Li 		/duŋ/ /duŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/dʱuŋ/ /dʱuŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		tóng dòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		tung4 dung6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 筒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		tǒng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ duwng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lˁoŋ/
English tube

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 筒 筒
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12452 12476
Phonetic
component 		同 同
Rime
group 		東 東
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		同 洞
Old
Chinese 		/*doːŋ/ /*doːŋs/

Definitions

筒

  1. section of thick bamboo
  2. hollow tube; pipe
  3. barrel; can; tin
  4. tube-shaped part of an item of clothing or footwear
  5. (colloquial) to put in; to place in

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

筒

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. cylinder
  2. pipe
  3. tube
  4. gun barrel
  5. sleeve

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
筒
つつ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese 筒 (tutu), from Proto-Japonic *tutu.

Pronunciation

Noun

筒(つつ) • (tsutsu) 

  1. tube
  2. hub (central part of a wheel)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
筒
どう
Grade: S
irregular

From 胴 (dō).

Pronunciation

Noun

筒(どう) • (dō) 

  1. hub (central part of a wheel)
Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

筒 • (tong) (hangeul 통, revised tong, McCune–Reischauer t'ong, Yale thong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筒: Hán Nôm readings: đồng, thổng, đỗng

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