洞

洞 U+6D1E, 洞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D1E
← 洝
[U+6D1D]
CJK Unified Ideographs 洟 →
[U+6D1F]
洞 U+FA05, 洞
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA05
← 宅
[U+FA04]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs 暴 →
[U+FA06]

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order
9 strokes

洞 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水月一口 (EBMR), four-corner 37120, composition ⿰氵同)

Derived characters

  • 霘, 𪔦, 𢞉

References

Chinese

simp. and trad.
洞

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *doːŋ, *doːŋs) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 同 (OC *doːŋ).

Etymology

“hole; cavity” > “penetrating; thorough; zero”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dwa(ː)ŋ (“hole; orifice; cave; pit; well”). Cognate with Burmese တွင်း (twang:), Tibetan དོང (dong, “deep hole; pit”) and Jingpho kha-thung (“well, pit”).

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • dang7 - vernacular;
  • tong7 - literary.
  • Wu
  • Xiang
    • (Changsha)
      • Wiktionary: dong4 / dong5
      • Sinological IPA (key) (old-style): /tʊŋ⁴⁵/, /tʊŋ²¹/
      • Sinological IPA (key) (new-style): /tən⁴⁵/, /tən²¹/

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 洞
Mandarin Beijing /tuŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /tuŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /tuŋ⁵³/
Jinan /tuŋ²¹/
Qingdao /təŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /tuŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /tuŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /tuə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /tuŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /tũn¹³/
Ürümqi /tuŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /toŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /toŋ¹³/
Guiyang /toŋ²¹³/
Kunming /toŋ¹/
Nanjing /toŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /təŋ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /tuəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /tuŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /tũŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /doŋ²³/
Suzhou /doŋ³¹/
Hangzhou /doŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /doŋ²²/
Hui Shexian /tʰʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /tan¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /toŋ⁵⁵/
/toŋ¹¹/
Xiangtan /dən²¹/
Gan Nanchang /tʰuŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /tʰuŋ⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʰuŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /toŋ²²/
Nanning /tuŋ²²/
Hong Kong /tuŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tɔŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tɔyŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tɔŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /taŋ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔdoŋ³³/
/ʔdoŋ²³/ ~房

Rime
Character 洞
Reading # 2/2
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dung6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 洞
Reading # 2/2
No. 12469
Phonetic
component
同
Rime
group
東
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
洞
Old
Chinese
/*doːŋs/

Definitions

洞

  1. hole; cavity; cave
  2. (literary, or in compounds) thorough; penetrating
  3. the numeral zero (used in radio communications in aviation and by the military)
  4. dong, a submunicipal administrative division in North and South Korea
Synonyms
  • (hole):
  • (zero):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character 洞
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 徒紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/duŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/duŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/duŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/dəwŋ/
Li
Rong
/duŋ/
Wang
Li
/duŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
tóng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tung4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 洞
Reading # 1/2
No. 12453
Phonetic
component
同
Rime
group
東
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
同
Old
Chinese
/*doːŋ/

Definitions

洞

  1. Only used in 澒洞/𭱊洞 (hòngtóng) and 洪洞 (Hóngtóng, “Hongtong”).

Japanese

Kanji

洞

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. Cave, den, grotto

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 洞 (MC duŋH).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [to̞(ː)ŋ]
  • Phonetic hangul: [동(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Wikisource 洞 (eumhun 골 동 (gol dong))

  1. Hanja form? of 동 (“hole; cavity; cave”).
  2. Hanja form? of 동 (“dong, a submunicipal administrative division in North and South Korea”).

Compounds

Etymology 2

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading.

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [tʰo̞(ː)ŋ]
  • Phonetic hangul: [통(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

洞 (eumhun 밝을 통 (balgeul tong))

  1. Hanja form? of 통 (“bright; thorough; penetrating”).

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

洞: Hán Nôm readings: đọng, động, đùng, dộng, dọng, đỗng

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