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U+515A, 党
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-515A

[U+5159]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+515B]
See also:

Translingual

Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : phonetic  (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic  (person).

Simplified from ()

Originally a surname, then used as a simplified substitute for the homophonous character .

Han character

(radical 10 +8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火月口竹山 (FBRHU), four-corner 90216, composition)

  1. political party, gang, faction

References

  • KangXi: page 125, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1381
  • Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 273, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+515A

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
Notes:

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


Proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. Only used in 党項党项.

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

Readings

Kanji in this term
とう
Grade: 6
on'yomi

Noun

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana とう, romaji )

  1. political party

(hiragana たむら, romaji tamura)

  1. Alternative form of

Suffix

(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji , hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

  1. political party