當

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.2 Adverb 5.2.1 Synonyms 5.3 References 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

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

1. bear, accept, undertake
2. just

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

當 (Yale dong1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

當

[edit] Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: あたる (ataru)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

當 (simplified 当, pinyin dāng (dang1), Wade-Giles tang¹)

[edit] Adverb

當 (traditional, Pinyin dāng, simplified 当)

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.

[edit] Synonyms

• 還
• 尚

[edit] References

• (2007) Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin). Hong Kong: Commercial Press. ISBN 9789620702778.

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

當 (đương, đáng, đang, đấng)