湩

湩 U+6E69, 湩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E69 ← 湨 [U+6E68] CJK Unified Ideographs 湪 → [U+6E6A]

Translingual

Han character

湩 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水竹十土 (EHJG), four-corner 3211₄, composition ⿰氵重)

1. milk
2. drums
3. muddy, turbid

References

• KangXi: page 638, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17864
• Dae Jaweon: page 1045, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1680, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6E69

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		湩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dòng, zhòng (dong⁴, zhong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥˋ, ㄓㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung⁶, dung³, zung³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dòng
    • Wade–Giles: tung⁴
    • Yale: dùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: donq
    • Palladius: дун (dun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhòng
    • Wade–Giles: chung⁴
    • Yale: jùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jonq
    • Palladius: чжун (čžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dung⁶, dung³, zung³
    • Yale: duhng, dung, jung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung⁶, dung³, dzung³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dung⁶, dung³, zung³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ²²/, /tʊŋ³³/, /t͡sʊŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /tuoŋ^X/, /tuŋ^H/, /ʈɨoŋ^H/

Rime
Character	湩	湩	湩
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	端 (5)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	冬 (5)	東 (1)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I	III
Fanqie	都𪁪切	多貢切	竹用切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuoŋX/	/tuŋH/	/ʈɨoŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/tuoŋX/	/tuŋH/	/ʈioŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/toŋX/	/tuŋH/	/ȶioŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tawŋX/	/təwŋH/	/ʈuawŋH/
Li Rong	/toŋX/	/tuŋH/	/ȶioŋH/
Wang Li	/tuoŋX/	/tuŋH/	/ȶĭwoŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuoŋX/	/tuŋH/	/ȶi̯woŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dǒng	dòng	zhòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dung2	dung3	zung3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːŋs/, /*tuːŋʔ/, /*toŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	湩	湩	湩
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	17436	17451	17454
Phonetic component	重	重	重
Rime group	東	終	東
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	涷	湩	湩
Old Chinese	/*toːŋs/	/*tuːŋʔ/	/*toŋs/

Definitions

湩

1. (obsolete) milk, koumiss

   • 得漢食物皆去之，以示不如湩酪之便美也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     得汉食物皆去之，以示不如湩酪之便美也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Dé Hàn shíwù jiē qù zhī, yǐ shì bù rú dòng lào zhī biàn měi yě. [Pinyin]

     And he took Han food and threw it away, in order to show how it was not as good as milk and cream.

2. (literary) murky, turbid
3. (literary) drumbeat

References

• (Cantonese) “湩”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Vietnamese

Han character

湩: Hán Nôm readings: chòng

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References

• Nom Foundation