慟

See also: 恸

Translingual

Han character

慟 (radical 61 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心竹土尸 (PHGS), four-corner 9402₇, composition ⿰忄動)

1. sadness, grief
2. mourn
3. be moved

References

• KangXi: page 399, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11103
• Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2346, character 6
• Unihan data for U+615F

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Chinese

		-
trad.		慟
simp.		恸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tòng (tong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ung⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tonq
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dung⁶
    • Yale: duhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (慟, reconstructed)
Character (慟), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 定 (7) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 徒弄切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/duŋH/	/dʱuŋH/	/duŋH/	/duŋH/	/dəwŋH/	/duŋH/	/duŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (慟, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
慟								tòng								‹ duwngH ›								/*[d]ˤoŋʔ-s/								grieved
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
慟					17450					重					東					0					洞					/*doːŋs/

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Japanese

Kanji

慟

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: どう (dō), とう (tō)
• Kun: なげく (nageku)

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Korean

Hanja

慟 (tong) (hangeul 통, revised tong, McCune-Reischauer t'ong, Yale thong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: đỏng

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