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蕩

蕩

See also: 荡

Translingual

Han character

蕩 (radical 140 艸+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿水日竹 (TEAH), four-corner 44127)

  1. pond, pool
  2. wash away, cleanse

References

  • KangXi: page 1058, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32002
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1521, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3295, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+8569

Chinese

trad. 蕩
simp. 荡
alt. forms 蘯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
湯 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪 *l̥ʰaːŋ
薚 *l̥ʰaːŋ
簜 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒 *l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩 *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙 *l̥ʰaːŋs
啺 *l'aːŋ
碭 *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸 *l'aːŋʔ
愓 *l'aːŋʔ
璗 *l'aːŋʔ
崵 *l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿 *l'aːŋs
暢 *l̥ʰaŋs
畼 *l̥ʰaŋs
腸 *l'aŋ
場 *l'aŋ
傷 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤 *hljaŋ
觴 *hljaŋ
慯 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓 *hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲 *hljaŋ
陽 *laŋ
楊 *laŋ
揚 *laŋ
瘍 *laŋ
煬 *laŋ, *laŋs
鍚 *laŋ
暘 *laŋ
颺 *laŋ, *laŋs
昜 *laŋ
輰 *laŋ
敭 *laŋ
鰑 *laŋ
諹 *laŋ, *laŋs
瑒 *laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉 *laŋ
餳 *ljaːŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蕩 蕩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 唐 (101) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 徒朗切 他浪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /daŋX/ /tʰaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Wang
Li		 /dɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱɑŋX/ /tʰɑŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 dàng tàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蕩 蕩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 dàng dàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dangX › ‹ dangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N.rˤaŋʔ/ /*lˤaŋ-s/
English beat furiously (of the heart) throw out, purify from

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 蕩 蕩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 14561 14569
Phonetic
component		 昜 昜
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 儻 蕩
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰaːŋs/ /*l'aːŋʔ/

Verb

蕩

  1. (literary) to wander; to roam

Japanese

Kanji

蕩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

蕩 • ‎(tang) (hangeul 탕, revised tang, McCune-Reischauer t'ang, Yale thang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蕩 (đãng, đẵng, thững, dãng, vảng)

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