唐

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 庚 + semantic 口 (“mouth”)

唐 and 庚 were near-homophones in Old Chinese (唐 *(kə)-rˤaŋ, 庚 *kˤraŋ; the OC initial for 唐 is less certain). 口 "mouth" refers to the older meaning "to exaggerate, to boast."

Han character

唐 (radical 30 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈中口 (ILR), four-corner 0026₇)

Noun

1. Tang dynasty
2. A surname

Adjective

1. Chinese

Derived characters

• 糖

References

• KangXi: page 192, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3709
• Dae Jaweon: page 411, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 633, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5510

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Cantonese

Hanzi

唐 (Yale tong4)

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Japanese

Kanji

唐 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: から (kara)
• Nanori: かろ (karo), たん (tan)

Compounds

唐木 (karaki): exotic wood 唐獅子 (からじし, karajishi; からしし, karashishi) 唐手 (からて, karate) 唐様 (karayō): Chinese style design

毛唐 (ketō): foreigner, Westerner 毛唐人 (けとうじん, ketōjin; けたうじん) 唐音 (tōon): Tang reading of kanji 唐辛子 (tōgarashi): red pepper

唐詩 (tōshi): Tang poetry 唐人 (とうじん, tōjin): Chinese person; a foreigner from China 唐朝 (tōchō): Tang Dynasty 入唐 (にっとう, nittō)

Noun

唐 (hiragana とう, romaji tō)

1. Tang Dynasty of China (618-907 A.D.)

唐 (hiragana から, romaji kara)

1. elegant, old term for China, Cathay

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

唐 (pinyin táng (tang2), Wade-Giles t'ang²)

Compounds

• 半唐番 ("half Chinese" person)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

唐 (dhɑng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

唐 (đường, đằng, đàng, giềng)