党

See also 黨

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 尚 + semantic 儿 (“person”)

Originally a surname, then used as a simplified substitute for the homophonous character 黨.

Han character

党 (radical 10 儿+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火月口竹山 (FBRHU), four-corner 9021₆)

1. political party, gang, faction

References

• KangXi: page 125, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1381
• Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 273, character 11
• Unihan data for U+515A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

党 (traditional 黨, Yale dong2)

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Japanese

Kanji

党 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: なかま (nakama), むら (mura)

Noun

党 (hiragana とう, romaji tō)

1. political party

党 (hiragana たむら, romaji tamura)

1. Alternative form of 屯.

Suffix

党 (hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. political party

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Korean

Hanja

党 (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune-Reischauer tang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

党 (traditional 黨, pinyin dǎng (dang3), Wade-Giles tang³)