U+578C, 垌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-578C

[U+578B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+578D]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 32, 土+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 土月一口 (GBMR), four-corner 47120, composition )

  1. a field
  2. used in place names

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 227, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5031
  • Dae Jaweon: page 463, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 439, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+578C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic (earth, ground) + phonetic (OC *doːŋ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Compare Proto-Tai *doŋᴮ (open field)[1] (whence Zhuang doengh (field), Thai ทุ่ง (tûng, field), Lao ທົ່ງ (thong, field)) and Vietnamese đồng (field).

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (dialectal) field; farmland
  2. Used in place names.

Compounds

  • 儒垌
  • 合傘垌 / 合伞垌

References

  1. ^ Pittayaporn, Pittayawat (2009) The Phonology of Proto-Tai[1], Cornell University PhD dissertation, page 341

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. only used in 垌塚垌冢 (Tóngzhǒng)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): とう () (tsu)
  • Kun: つぼ (tsubo)

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 항아리 (hang'ari dong))

  1. a jar, a pot, a crock
  2. 동막이 (dongmagi, “throwing up levees”)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: đồng

Hán-Nôm meaning is the same as the Chinese reading. However, đồng in Latin Vietnamese "Chữ Quốc Ngữ" means copper, coin, or currency instead.

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