董

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董 U+8463, 董
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8463
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 葤 →

Translingual

Han character

董 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹十土 (THJG), four-corner 44104, composition ⿱艹重)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1045, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31433
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1506, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3250, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8463

Chinese

trad. 董
simp. # 董
2nd round simp. 苳
alternative forms 𦱦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 董
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (重) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撞 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
幢 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
橦 *rdoːŋ, *doːŋ, *tjoŋ
噇 *rdoːŋ
𩪘 *rdoːŋ
艟 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
憧 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
畽 *tʰoːnʔ, *tʰuːnʔ
董 *toːŋʔ
蕫 *toːŋʔ, *doːŋ
箽 *toːŋʔ
懂 *toːŋʔ
湩 *toːŋs, *tuːŋʔ, *toŋs
曈 *tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
童 *doːŋ
僮 *doːŋ
瞳 *doːŋ
罿 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
犝 *doːŋ
潼 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
穜 *doːŋ, *doŋ
動 *doːŋʔ
慟 *doːŋs
堹 *toŋs
諥 *toŋs
蹱 *tʰoŋ, *tʰoŋs, *tjoŋ
重 *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs
緟 *doŋ, *doŋs
蝩 *doŋ
褈 *doŋ, *tʰjoŋ
鐘 *tjoŋ, *tjoŋ
鍾 *tjoŋ
籦 *tjoŋ
種 *tjoŋʔ, *tjoŋs
腫 *tjoŋʔ
踵 *tjoŋʔ
歱 *tjoŋʔ
喠 *tjoŋʔ, *tʰjoŋʔ
偅 *tjoŋs
衝 *tʰjoŋ
揰 *tʰjoŋs
尰 *djoŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *toːŋʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 重 (OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • táng - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • tóng - literary.
Note:
  • dang2 - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • dong2 - literary.
Rime
Character 董
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 多動切
Baxter tuwngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tuŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tuŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/təwŋX/
Li
Rong 		/tuŋX/
Wang
Li 		/tuŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tuŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		dǒng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dung2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 董
Reading # 1/1
No. 17432
Phonetic
component 		重
Rime
group 		東
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		董
Old
Chinese 		/*toːŋʔ/

Definitions

董

  1. to direct; to supervise
  2. director; supervisor
  3. a surname
    董卓  ―  Dǒng Zhuó  ―  Dong Zhuo

Descendants

  • → English: Dong, Tung, Tang

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

董

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): とう (tō)
  • Kun: ただす (tadasu, 董す)
  • Nanori: ただ (tada)、ただし (tadashi)、ただす (tadasu)、のぶ (nobu)、まさ (masa)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

董: Hán Nôm readings: đổng, đỏng, đúng, đủng, đũng, xổng, dỏng, rỗng

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