棠

Translingual

Han character

棠 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 火月口木 (FBRD), four-corner 9090₄, composition ⿱龸呆)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 533, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14953
• Dae Jaweon: page 921, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1231, character 7
• Unihan data for U+68E0

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Chinese

trad.		棠
simp. #		棠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
當	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
襠	*taːŋ
鐺	*taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ
簹	*taːŋ
璫	*taːŋ
檔	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
儅	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
蟷	*taːŋ
擋	*taːŋʔ, *taːŋs
黨	*taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ
讜	*taːŋʔ
欓	*taːŋʔ
譡	*taːŋs
闣	*taːŋs
瓽	*taːŋs
鏜	*tʰaːŋ
闛	*tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ
鼞	*tʰaːŋ
曭	*tʰaːŋʔ
儻	*tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs
戃	*tʰaːŋʔ
矘	*tʰaːŋʔ
爣	*tʰaːŋʔ
攩	*hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs
淌	*tʰaːŋʔ
倘	*tʰaːŋʔ
躺	*tʰaːŋʔ
趟	*tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs
堂	*daːŋ
坣	*daːŋ
棠	*daːŋ
糛	*daːŋ
螳	*daːŋ
隚	*daːŋ
橖	*daːŋ
掌	*tjaŋʔ
廠	*tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs
敞	*tʰjaŋʔ
僘	*tʰjaŋʔ
氅	*tʰjaŋʔ
常	*djaŋ
嘗	*djaŋ
裳	*djaŋ
徜	*djaŋ
尚	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
甞	*djaŋ
鋿	*djaŋ
嫦	*djaŋ
償	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
賞	*hjaŋʔ
瞠	*rtʰaːŋ
撐	*rtʰaːŋ
樘	*rtʰaːŋ
橕	*rtʰaːŋ
牚	*rtʰaːŋs
埫	*tʰoŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *daːŋ) : phonetic 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 木 (“tree, wood”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): táng (tang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: táng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: táng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻang²
    • Yale: táng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarng
    • Palladius: тан (tan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tong⁴
    • Yale: tòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dang

Rime
Character	棠
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
Baxter	dang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/daŋ/
Li Rong	/dɑŋ/
Wang Li	/dɑŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	táng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tong4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N.]rˤaŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	棠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	táng
Middle Chinese	‹ dang ›
Old Chinese	/*[N.]rˁaŋ/
English	a kind of pear tree (Pyrus)
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	棠
Reading #	1/1
No.	11140
Phonetic component	尚
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	唐
Old Chinese	/*daːŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 棠

1. crabapple tree
2. wild plum

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Japanese

Kanji

棠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō), どう (dō)
• Kun: やまなし (yamanashi)

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Korean

Hanja

棠 • (dang) (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune–Reischauer tang, Yale tang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 棠 (đường)

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