當

See also: 当

Translingual

Han character

當 (radical 102 田+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火月口田 (FBRW), four-corner 9060₆, composition ⿱⿱龸口田)

1. bear, accept, withstand, undertake
2. just, just at, just at (a time or place), at or in the very same...
3. to be
4. to act as
5. manage
6. when
7. during
8. ought, should
9. match equally, equal, same
10. obstruct
11. on the spot
12. right
13. suitable, adequate, fitting, proper
14. to replace
15. to regard as, to think
16. to pawn

References

• KangXi: page 764, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21890
• Dae Jaweon: page 1175, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2546, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7576

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Chinese

		-
trad.		當
simp.		当

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dāng (dang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dong¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): tong/tông
• Min Nan (POJ): tàng / tang / tng / tong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: dāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄤ
    • Wade-Giles: tang¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dang
    • IPA ^(key): /tɑŋ⁵⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dong¹
    • Yale: dōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tong/tông
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /toŋ⁵⁵/, /toŋ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tàng / tang / tng / tong
    • Tâi-lô: tàng / tang / tng / tong
    • IPA (Taipei): /taŋ¹¹/, /taŋ⁴⁴/, /tŋ̍⁴⁴/, /tɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taŋ²¹/, /taŋ³⁴/, /tŋ̍³⁴/, /tɔŋ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (當, reconstructed)
Character (當), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 都郎切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tɑŋ/	/tɑŋ/	/tɑŋ/	/tɑŋ/	/taŋ/	/tɑŋ/	/tɑŋ/
Character (當), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 端 (5) Final: 唐 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 丁浪切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/tɑŋH/	/tɑŋH/	/tɑŋH/	/tɑŋH/	/taŋH/	/tɑŋH/	/tɑŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (當, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
當								dāng								‹ tang ›								/*tˤaŋ/								match (v.); have the value of, rank with
當								dàng								‹ tangH ›								/*tˤaŋ-s/								suitable
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
當					11104					尚					陽					0					當					/*taːŋ/
當					11122					尚					陽					0					譡					/*taːŋs/

Adverb

當

1. (archaic) still
   • c. 1330 - 1400: Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 5

     雲長提華雄之頭，擲於地上，其酒當溫。

     Yunchang's wine was still warm when he threw Hua Xiong's head on the ground.

Synonyms

• 還
• 尚

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Kanji

當

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: あたる (ataru)

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Korean

Hanja

當 (dang) (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune-Reischauer tang, Yale tang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

當 (đương, đáng, đang, đấng)

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