同

See also: 何, 向, 回, and 伺

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 凡 (“all”) + 口 (“mouth”) together.

Han character

同 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 月一口 (BMR), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿵冂⿱一口)

1. same, similar
2. together with

Derived characters

• 洞, 銅, 桐, 侗, 恫, 挏, 鮦, 駧, 眮, 詷
• 迵, 衕, 興
• 筒

Descendants

• 仝, 々

References

• KangXi: page 175, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3294
• Dae Jaweon: page 389, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 578, character 1
• Unihan data for U+540C

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Chinese

simpl.		同
trad.		同/衕

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóng (tong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung⁶, tung⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): thùng
• Min Nan (POJ): tâng / tông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tongr
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dung⁶, tung⁴
    • Yale: duhng, tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung⁶, tung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ²²/, /tʰʊŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thùng
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /tʰuŋ¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâng / tông
    • Tâi-lô: tâng / tông
    • IPA (Taipei): /taŋ²³/, /tɔŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taŋ¹³/, /tɔŋ¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (同, reconstructed)
Character (同), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 定 (7) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 徒紅切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/duŋ/	/dʱuŋ/	/duŋ/	/duŋ/	/dəwŋ/	/duŋ/	/duŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (同, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
同								tóng								‹ duwng ›								/*lˤoŋ/								together, join
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
同					12446					同					東					0					同					/*doːŋ/					甲金文象有節筒管與口協合，如此方能音律諧和，爲筒（簫）初文

Adjective

同

1. same.

   同一個世界，同一個夢想。 [MSC, trad.]

   同一个世界，同一个梦想。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tóng yīge shìjiè, tóng yīge mèngxiǎng. [Pinyin]

   One World, One Dream. (literally "The Same World, The Same Dream")

Preposition

同

1. Indicating accompany.

   我同你去  ―  wǒ tóng nǐ qù  ―  I am going with you.

2. Indicating relationship.

   他同這件事無關。 [MSC, trad.]

   他同这件事无关。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā tóng zhè jiàn shì wúguān. [Pinyin]

   He has nothing to do with this.

3. Indicating comparison.

   今年的氣候同往年不一樣。 [MSC, trad.]

   今年的气候同往年不一样。 [MSC, simp.]

   Jīnnián de qìhòu tóng wǎngnián bù yīyàng. [Pinyin]

   The climate this year is different from which of the past.

Conjunction

同

1. and

Compounds

• 同樣
• 同音字

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Japanese

Kanji

同

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: づう (zū)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yōon: どう (dō)
• Kun: おなじ (onaji), ともに (tomoni), ともにする (tomonisuru)

Prefix

同 (hiragana どう, romaji dō-)

1. same, similar
2. together with

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Korean

Hanja

同 (dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune-Reischauer tong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

同 (đồng), đùng, đang

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Readings

• Nôm: đang, đồng, đùng

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999