穜

穜 U+7A5C, 穜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A5C ← 穛 [U+7A5B] CJK Unified Ideographs 穝 → [U+7A5D]

Translingual

Han character

穜 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+12, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹木卜廿土 (HDYTG), four-corner 2091₄, composition ⿰禾童)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 860, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25307
• Dae Jaweon: page 1286, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2633, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7A5C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		穜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 穜
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doːŋ, *doŋ) : semantic 禾 (“grain”) + phonetic 童 (OC *doːŋ).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóng (tong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²
    • Yale: túng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torng
    • Palladius: тун (tun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tung⁴
    • Yale: tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: duwng, drjowng

Rime
Character	穜	穜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	澄 (11)
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	直容切
Baxter	duwng	drjowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duŋ/	/ɖɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/duŋ/	/ɖioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/duŋ/	/ȡioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwŋ/	/ɖuawŋ/
Li Rong	/duŋ/	/ȡioŋ/
Wang Li	/duŋ/	/ȡĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuŋ/	/ȡʱi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tóng	chóng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tung4	cung4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ/, /*doŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	穜	穜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17448	17460
Phonetic component	重	重
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	同	重
Old Chinese	/*doːŋ/	/*doŋ/

Definitions

穜

1. ^† early-planted late-ripening grain

   Antonym: 稑 (lù)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 穜 – see 種 (“seed; kernel; cereal; clan; ethnic group; ethnicity; race; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 種).

References

• “穜”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

穜

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rice

Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)、ず (zu)、しょう (shō)、しゅ (shu)
• Kun: おくて (okute)

Korean

Hanja

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

1. 늦벼: late crop