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彤

彤

Translingual

Han character

彤 (radical 59 彡+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月卜竹竹竹 (BYHHH), four-corner 72422, composition ⿰丹彡)

  1. red, vermilion
  2. a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 363, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9972
  • Dae Jaweon: page 682, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 853, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5F64

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 彤

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (彡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
杉 *sreːm
彡 *sroːm, *slom
衫 *sroːm
髟 *priw, *piw, *sroːm
釤 *sraːms
䑣 *l̥ʰun
彤 *l'uːŋ
浵 *l'uːŋ
肜 *luŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 彤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 冬 (5)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒冬切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /duoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /duoŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /doŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /doŋ/
Wang
Li		 /duoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱuoŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tóng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彤
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tóng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ downg ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-rˤu[m]/ (dialect: *-um > *-uŋ)
English red

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 彤
Reading # 1/1
No. 11049
Phonetic
component		 彡
Rime
group		 終
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 彤
Old
Chinese		 /*l'uːŋ/

Definitions

彤

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Compounds

  • 彤庭
  • 彤弓
  • 彤管
  • 彤管流芳
  • 彤管貽／彤管贻
  • 彤闈／彤闱

Japanese

Kanji

彤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

彤 • ‎(dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune-Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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