潼

潼 U+6F7C, 潼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F7C ← 潻 [U+6F7B] CJK Unified Ideographs 潽 → [U+6F7D]

Translingual

Han character

潼 (radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水卜廿土 (EYTG), four-corner 3011₄, composition ⿰氵童)

1. high, lofty
2. damp
3. Tong Pass (潼關)
4. Tong River (潼河)

References

• KangXi: page 651, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18302
• Dae Jaweon: page 1061, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1746, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6F7C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		潼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 潼
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
撞	*rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
幢	*rdoːŋ, *rdoːŋs
橦	*rdoːŋ, *doːŋ, *tjoŋ
噇	*rdoːŋ
𩪘	*rdoːŋ
艟	*rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
憧	*rdoːŋs, *tʰjoŋ
畽	*tʰoːnʔ, *tʰuːnʔ
董	*toːŋʔ
蕫	*toːŋʔ, *doːŋ
箽	*toːŋʔ
懂	*toːŋʔ
湩	*toːŋs, *tuːŋʔ, *toŋs
曈	*tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
童	*doːŋ
僮	*doːŋ
瞳	*doːŋ
罿	*doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
犝	*doːŋ
潼	*doːŋ, *tʰjoŋ
穜	*doːŋ, *doŋ
動	*doːŋʔ
慟	*doːŋs
堹	*toŋs
諥	*toŋs
蹱	*tʰoŋ, *tʰoŋs, *tjoŋ
重	*doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs
緟	*doŋ, *doŋs
蝩	*doŋ
褈	*doŋ, *tʰjoŋ
鐘	*tjoŋ, *tjoŋ
鍾	*tjoŋ
籦	*tjoŋ
種	*tjoŋʔ, *tjoŋs
腫	*tjoŋʔ
踵	*tjoŋʔ
歱	*tjoŋʔ
喠	*tjoŋʔ, *tʰjoŋʔ
偅	*tjoŋs
衝	*tʰjoŋ
揰	*tʰjoŋs
尰	*djoŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóng (tong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): tòng / tông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torng
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung⁴
    • Yale: tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tòng / tông
    • Tâi-lô: tòng / tông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doxng, doong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²¹/, /tɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ⁴¹/, /tɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ²¹/, /tɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ¹¹/, /tɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ²¹/, /tɔŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /duŋ/, /t͡ɕʰɨoŋ/

Rime
Character	潼	潼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	徒紅切	尺容切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duŋ/	/t͡ɕʰɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/duŋ/	/t͡ɕʰioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/duŋ/	/t͡ɕʰioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwŋ/	/cʰuawŋ/
Li Rong	/duŋ/	/t͡ɕʰioŋ/
Wang Li	/duŋ/	/t͡ɕʰĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuŋ/	/t͡ɕʰi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tóng	chōng

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ/, /*tʰjoŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	潼	潼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17444	17482
Phonetic component	重	重
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	同	𧘂
Old Chinese	/*doːŋ/	/*tʰjoŋ/
Notes		通作衝

Definitions

潼

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Compounds

• 潼河
• 潼潼

• 潼關／潼关 (Tóngguān)

• 臨潼鬥寶／临潼斗宝

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Kanji

潼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ずう (zū)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yō-on: どう (dō)

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Hanja

潼 • (dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune–Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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