東

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Noun 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Noun 3.3 Etymology 3 3.3.1 Noun 3.4 Etymology 4 3.4.1 Noun 3.4.2 Kanji 3.4.2.1 Readings 3.4.2.2 Compounds 3.4.3 Adnominal 3.5 References 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 4.1.1 Compounds 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.3 Noun 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 木 + 日

Originally represented a bag tied at both ends, and was later borrowed phonetically to mean "east".[1] This borrowing may have been influenced by reinterpreting the character as the sun (日) rising behind a tree (木).

[edit] Han character

東 (radical 75 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木田 (DW), four-corner 5090₆, composition ⿻木日)

1. east, eastern, eastward

[edit] Descendants

• 棟, 重, 凍, 涷, 蝀

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 513, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14499
• Dae Jaweon: page 899, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1165, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6771

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

東 (simplified 东, Yale dung1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

/himukasi/: *pimukasi > ɸimukasi > himukashi. Compound of pi (“‘sun’”), muka (“‘facing, direction’”), and shi (“‘wind, direction’”). Literally "the direction facing the sun".

[edit] Noun

東 (hiragana ひむかし, romaji himukashi)

1. east

[edit] Etymology 2

• pingasi > ɸingasi > hingashi. From earlier /himukasi/: *pimukasi > ɸimkasi > ɸimgasi > ɸigasi > higasi.

[edit] Noun

東 (hiragana ひんがし, romaji hingashi)

1. east
   • 10th century: Ise Monogatari (chapter 4, page 82)

   むかし、東（ひんがし）の五条に大后の宮おはしましける、西の対に住む人有けり。

[edit] Etymology 3

From hingashi < himukashi.

[edit] Noun

東 (hiragana ひがし, romaji higashi)

1. east

[edit] Etymology 4

aduma > azuma.

[edit] Noun

東 (hiragana あずま, romaji azuma, historical hiragana あづま)

1. east, Eastern Japan

[edit] Kanji

東 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: ひがし (higashi)
• Nanori: あい (ai), あがり (agari), あずま (azuma), あづま (adzuma), こ (ko), さき (saki), しの (shino), とお (tō), はじめ (hajime), はる (haru), ひが (higa), もと (moto)

[edit] Compounds

東方 (tōhō): eastern direction 東南 (tōnan): southeast 東亜 (tōa): East Asia 東洋 (tōyō): Orient 東部 (tōbu): eastern part 東西南北 (tōzainanboku): east, west, south, and north 関東 (kantō): Kanto

中東 (chūtō): Middle East 東京 (tōkyō): Tokyo 東上 (tōjō): going to Tokyo 東名高速道路 (tōmei kōsokudōro): Tokyo-Nagoya Expressway 東側 (higashigawa): east side 東口 (higashiguchi): east entrance 東半球 (higashihankyū): Eastern Hemisphere

[edit] Adnominal

東の(ひがしの, higashino)

1. east; eastern; easterly

[edit] References

• Horiuchi, Hideaki; Ken Akiyama (1997). Taketori Monogatari , Ise Monogatari. Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten. ISBN 4-00-240017-4.

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

東
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 동 (revised: dong, McCune-Reischauer: tong, Yale: tong)

• Name (hangeul): 동녘 (revised: dongnyeok, McCune-Reischauer: tongnyŏk, Yale: tongnyekh)

[edit] Compounds

• 征東 (정동)
• 正東 (정동)
• 正東方 (정동방)
• 齊東野人 (제동야인)
• 東大門 (동대문)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

東 (simplified 东, pinyin dōng (dong1), Wade-Giles tung¹)

[edit] Noun

東 (traditional, Pinyin dōng, simplified 东)

1. east, eastern, eastward

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

東 (đông, đang)