堂

Translingual

Han character

堂 (radical 32 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月口土 (FBRG), four-corner 9010₄, composition ⿱尚土)

1. hall
2. government office

References

• KangXi: page 231, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5207
• Dae Jaweon: page 469, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 452, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5802

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		堂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): táng (tang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tong⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): tông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: táng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tangr
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tong⁴
    • Yale: tòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tong⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông
    • Tâi-lô: tông
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (堂, reconstructed)
Character (堂), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 定 (7) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 徒郎切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/dɑŋ/	/dʱɑŋ/	/dɑŋ/	/dɑŋ/	/daŋ/	/dɑŋ/	/dɑŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (堂, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
堂								táng								‹ dang ›								/*[d]ˤaŋ/								hall
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
堂					11138					尚					陽					0					唐					/*daːŋ/

Noun

堂 (classifier 間／间)

1. main hall

Compounds

• 食堂

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Japanese

Kanji

堂

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: どう (dō)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kun: たかどの (takadono), すまい (sumai)

Compounds

• 食堂 (しょくどう, shokudō): cafeteria, dining room

Noun

堂 (hiragana どう, romaji dō)

1. temple
2. shrine
3. hall

Prefix

堂 (hiragana どう, romaji dō-)

1. magnificent (building)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

堂 (đường, chân, đoàng)

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