衕

See also: 同

衕	U+8855, 衕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8855

← 衔
[U+8854]

CJK Unified Ideographs

衖 →
[U+8856]

Translingual

Han character

衕 (Kangxi radical 144, 行+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人月口弓 (HOBRN), four-corner 2122₁, composition ⿴行同 or ⿲彳同亍)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1109, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34048
Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 832, character 13
Unihan data for U+8855

Chinese

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 行 + phonetic 同 (OC *doːŋ).

Etymology 1

trad.		衕/同^*
simp.		同^*
alternative forms		㣚

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tòng (tong⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tòng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tòng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tòng
  - Wade–Giles: tʻung⁴
  - Yale: tùng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tonq
  - Palladius: тун (tun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: tung⁴
  - Yale: tùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tòng
  - Tâi-lô: tòng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doxng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: duwng, duwngH

Rime
Character	衕	衕
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/	/duŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/duŋ/	/duŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/duŋ/	/duŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwŋ/	/dəwŋ^H/
Li Rong	/duŋ/	/duŋ^H/
Wang Li	/duŋ/	/duŋ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuŋ/	/dʱuŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tóng	dòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tung⁴	dung⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ/, /*doːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衕	衕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12460	12478
Phonetic component	同	同
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	同	洞
Old Chinese	/*doːŋ/	/*doːŋs/

Definitions

衕

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) passageway; lane; alley

Compounds

死衚衕 / 死胡同 (sǐhútòng)
花衚衕 / 花胡同
血衚衕 / 血胡同
衚衕 / 胡同 (hútòng)
衚衕兒 / 胡同儿 (hútòngr)
錦衚衕 / 锦胡同

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		衕

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dòng (dong⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dung⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dòng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dòng
  - Wade–Giles: tung⁴
  - Yale: dùng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: donq
  - Palladius: дун (dun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: dung⁶
  - Yale: duhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dung⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: dung⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ²²/

Middle Chinese: duwngH

Rime
Character	衕
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒弄切
Baxter	duwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duŋ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/duŋ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/duŋ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwŋ^H/
Li Rong	/duŋ^H/
Wang Li	/duŋ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuŋ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dung⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*doːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衕
Reading #	2/2
No.	12478
Phonetic component	同
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	洞
Old Chinese	/*doːŋs/

Definitions

衕

(traditional Chinese medicine) diarrhoea

Japanese

Kanji

衕

(Hyōgai kanji)

alley
lane

Readings

On (unclassified): とう (tō)、ず (zu)
Kun: ちまた (chimata)

Korean

Hanja

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

Vietnamese

Han character

衕: Hán Nôm readings: đồng

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