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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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 党 – see 黨. (This term, 党, is the simplified form of 黨.)

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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Japanese

Kanji

党

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 黨)

Readings

Kanji in this term

党

とう Grade: 6

on'yomi

• Goon: とう (tō)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kun: なかま (nakama), むら (mura)

Noun

党 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 黨, hiragana とう, romaji tō)

1. political party

党 (hiragana たむら, romaji tamura)

1. Alternative form of 屯

Suffix

党 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 黨, hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. political party

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Korean

Hanja

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

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