同

See also: 仝, 衕, 何, 向, 回, and 伺

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

EtymologyEdit

Historical forms of the character 同
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 凡 ‎(“all”) + 口 ‎(“mouth”) together.

Han characterEdit

同 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月一口 (BMR), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿵冂𠮛)

Derived charactersEdit

• 洞, 銅, 桐, 侗, 恫, 挏, 鮦, 駧, 眮, 詷
• 迵, 衕, 興
• 筒

DescendantsEdit

• 仝, 々

AntonymsEdit

• 異

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 175, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3294
• Dae Jaweon: page 389, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 578, character 1
• Unihan data for U+540C

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ChineseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

simp. and trad.		同

Alternative formsEdit

• 仝, 冈

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóng (tong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thùng
• Min Dong (BUC): dùng
• Min Nan (POJ): tâng / tông
• Wu (Wiktionary): don (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tongr
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung⁴
    • Yale: tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thùng
    • Hakka Romanization System: tungˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tung²
    • IPA: /tʰuŋ¹¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dùng
    • IPA ^(key): /tuŋ⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâng / tông
    • Tâi-lô: tâng / tông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daang, doong
    • IPA (Taipei): /taŋ²⁴/, /tɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taŋ¹³/, /tɔŋ¹³/
    • Note: tâng - vernacular; tông - literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: don (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /d̻ʊŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /duŋ/▼

Rime
Character	同
Reading #	1/1
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*lˤoŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	同
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tóng
Middle Chinese	‹ duwng ›
Old Chinese	/*lˤoŋ/
English	together, join
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	同
Reading #	1/1
No.	12446
Phonetic component	同
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	同
Old Chinese	/*doːŋ/
Notes	甲金文象有節筒管與口協合，如此方能音律諧和，爲筒（簫）初文

DefinitionsEdit

同

1. same; identical

   同一個世界，同一個夢想。 [MSC, trad.]

   同一个世界，同一个梦想。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tóng yīge shìjiè, tóng yīge mèngxiǎng. [Pinyin]

   One World, One Dream. (literally "The Same World, The Same Dream")

2. Indicating accompany.

   我同你去  ―  wǒ tóng nǐ qù  ―  I am going with you.

3. Indicating relationship.

   他同這件事無關。 / 他同这件事无关。  ―  Tā tóng zhè jiàn shì wúguān.  ―  He has nothing to do with this.

4. Indicating comparison.

   今年的氣候同往年不一樣。 [MSC, trad.]

   今年的气候同往年不一样。 [MSC, simp.]

   Jīnnián de qìhòu tóng wǎngnián bù yīyàng. [Pinyin]

   The climate this year is different from which of the past.

5. (Cantonese) for

   同我攞一罐甜酸醬，唔該。 [Cantonese, trad.]

   同我攞一罐甜酸酱，唔该。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   Tung⁴ ngo⁵ lo² jat¹ gun³ tim⁴ syun¹ zoeng³, m⁴ goi¹. [Jyutping]

   Please get me a can of sweet-and-sour sauce.

6. and

SynonymsEdit

• (with):

Dialectal synonyms of 和 (“and”)
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical	Classical	與、及
Mandarin	Beijing	和、跟
	Taiwan	和、跟
	Jinan	和、跟、給
	Xi'an	跟、連
	Wuhan	跟
	Chengdu	跟、給
	Yangzhou	跟、交
	Hefei	跟
Cantonese	Guangzhou	同、同埋
	Hong Kong	同、同埋
	Taishan	同埋
	Yangjiang	鄧、同
Gan	Nanchang	跟、同
Hakka	Meixian	同
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	摎
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	同
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	摎
	Dongshi (Dabu)	同
	Taiwanese Raoping	摎
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	和
Jin	Taiyuan	和、跟
Min Bei	Jian'ou	邀
Min Dong	Fuzhou	共
Min Nan	Quanzhou	佮
	Xiamen	佮
	Zhangzhou	佮
	Taipei	佮
	Malaysia	佮
	Chaozhou	佮、共
Wu	Shanghai	搭
	Suzhou	搭
	Wenzhou	搭、伉
Xiang	Changsha	跟
	Shuangfeng	跟、同

CompoundsEdit

• 同樣／同样 (tóngyàng)
• 同音字 (tóngyīnzì)

Etymology 2Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 同 – see 衕. (This character, 同, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 衕.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

同

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: づう (zū)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yōon: どう (dō)
• Kun: おなじ (onaji), ともに (tomoni), ともにする (tomonisuru)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

同床 (どうしょう) ‎(dōshō): sharing a bed

Kanji in this term
同
どう Grade: 2
kan'yōon

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Chinese 同 ‎(duwng, “same”).

PronunciationEdit

• Kan'yōyomi
• (Tokyo) ど​う [dóꜜò] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [do̞ː]

PrefixEdit

同 ‎(hiragana どう, romaji dō-)

1. same

ReferencesEdit

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

同 • ‎(dong) (hangeul 동)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

同 (đồng), đùng, đang

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ReadingsEdit

• Nôm: đang, đồng, đùng

ReferencesEdit

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999