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塘

塘

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

塘 (radical 32 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土戈中口 (GILR), four-corner 40167, composition ⿰土唐)

  1. pond
  2. tank
  3. dike, embankment

References

  • KangXi: page 235, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5340
  • Dae Jaweon: page 473, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 473, character 20
  • Unihan data for U+5858

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 塘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唐 *ɡl'aːŋ
煻 *l'aːŋ
糖 *l'aːŋ
搪 *l'aːŋ
蓎 *l'aːŋ
瑭 *l'aːŋ
餹 *l'aːŋ
篖 *l'aːŋ
螗 *l'aːŋ
塘 *l'aːŋ
鶶 *l'aːŋ
赯 *l'aːŋ
磄 *l'aːŋ
溏 *l'aːŋ
傏 *l'aːŋ
鎕 *l'aːŋ
榶 *l'aːŋ
嵣 *l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚 *kraːŋ
賡 *kraːŋ
鹒 *kraːŋ
康 *kʰlaːŋ
穅 *kʰlaːŋ
糠 *kʰlaːŋ
槺 *kʰlaːŋ
漮 *kʰlaːŋ
躿 *kʰlaːŋ
慷 *kʰlaːŋʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 塘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒郎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /daŋ/
Li
Rong		 /dɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /dɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 táng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 塘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 táng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m.rˤaŋ/ (~ *mə.rˤaŋ)
English dam, dike

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 塘
Reading # 1/1
No. 3968
Phonetic
component		 庚
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 唐
Old
Chinese		 /*l'aːŋ/
Notes 見莊子國語

Definitions

塘

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Compounds

  • 回塘
  • 坳塘
  • 塘坳
  • 塘堰 (tángyàn)
  • 塘沽
  • 塘沽新港
  • 塘鵝／塘鹅 (táng'é)
  • 官塘
  • 提塘
  • 橫塘／横塘
  • 水塘 (shuǐtáng)
  • 池塘 (chítáng)
  • 泥塘
  • 海塘
  • 火塘
  • 瞿塘峽／瞿塘峡
  • 荷塘 (hétáng)
  • 葦塘／苇塘 (wěitáng)
  • 蠣塘／蛎塘
  • 錢塘江／钱塘江
  • 錢塘潮／钱塘潮
  • 陂塘
  • 雷塘
  • 魚塘／鱼塘

Japanese

Kanji

塘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

塘 • ‎(dang) (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune-Reischauer tang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

塘 (đường, đàng)

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