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慟

慟

See also: 恸

Translingual

Han character

慟 (radical 61 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心竹土尸 (PHGS), four-corner 94027, composition ⿰忄動)

  1. sadness, grief
  2. mourn
  3. be moved

References

  • KangXi: page 399, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11103
  • Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2346, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+615F

Chinese

trad. 慟
simp. 恸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 慟
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (重) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
撞 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
幢 *rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
橦 *rdoːŋ, *doːŋ, *tjoŋ
噇 *rdoːŋ
𩪘 *rdoːŋ
艟 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
憧 *rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
畽 *tʰoːnʔ, *tʰuːnʔ
董 *toːŋʔ
蕫 *toːŋʔ, *doːŋ
箽 *toːŋʔ
懂 *toːŋʔ
湩 *toːŋs, *tuːŋʔ, *toŋs
曈 *tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
童 *doːŋ
僮 *doːŋ
瞳 *doːŋ
罿 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
犝 *doːŋ
潼 *doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
穜 *doːŋ, *doŋ
動 *doːŋʔ
慟 *doːŋs
堹 *toŋs
諥 *toŋs
蹱 *tʰoŋ, *tʰoŋs, *tjoŋ
重 *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs
緟 *doŋ, *doŋs
蝩 *doŋ
褈 *doŋ, *tʰjoŋ
鐘 *tjoŋ, *tjoŋ
鍾 *tjoŋ
籦 *tjoŋ
種 *tjoŋʔ, *tjoŋs
腫 *tjoŋʔ
踵 *tjoŋʔ
歱 *tjoŋʔ
喠 *tjoŋʔ, *tʰjoŋʔ
偅 *tjoŋs
衝 *tʰjoŋ
揰 *tʰjoŋs
尰 *djoŋʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 慟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒弄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /duŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /duŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /duŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /duŋH/
Wang
Li		 /duŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱuŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dòng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 慟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tòng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ duwngH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]ˤoŋʔ-s/
English grieved

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 慟
Reading # 1/1
No. 17450
Phonetic
component		 重
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 洞
Old
Chinese		 /*doːŋs/

Definitions

慟

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Compounds

  • 哀慟／哀恸
  • 大慟／大恸 (dàtòng)
  • 悲慟／悲恸
  • 慟哭／恸哭 (tòngkū)
  • 慟哭流涕／恸哭流涕
  • 慟絕／恸绝
  • 撫尸慟哭／抚尸恸哭
  • 撫膺大慟／抚膺大恸
  • 觸目慟心／触目恸心

Japanese

Kanji

慟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

慟 • ‎(tong) (hangeul 통, revised tong, McCune-Reischauer t'ong, Yale thong)

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Vietnamese

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