當

See also 当

Translingual

Han character

當 (radical 102 田+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火月口田 (FBRW), four-corner 9060₆)

1. bear, accept, withstand, undertake
2. just, just at, just at (a time or place), at or in the very same...
3. to be
4. to act as
5. manage
6. when
7. during
8. ought, should
9. match equally, equal, same
10. obstruct
11. on the spot
12. right
13. suitable, adequate, fitting, proper
14. to replace
15. to regard as, to think
16. to pawn

References

• KangXi: page 764, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21890
• Dae Jaweon: page 1175, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2546, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7576

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Cantonese

Hanzi

當 (simplified 当, Yale dong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

當

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: あたる (ataru)

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Korean

Hanja

當 (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune-Reischauer tang, Yale tang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

當 (simplified 当, pinyin dāng (dang1), Wade-Giles tang¹)

Adverb

當 (traditional, Pinyin dāng, simplified 当)

1. (archaic) still
   • c. 1330 - 1400: Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 5

     雲長提華雄之頭，擲於地上，其酒當溫。

     Yunchang's wine was still warm when he threw Hua Xiong's head on the ground.

Synonyms

• 還
• 尚

References

• 2007, Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin), Hong Kong: Commercial Press, ISBN 9789620702778:

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Vietnamese

Han character

當 (đương, đáng, đang, đấng)