糖

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 唐 – grains of sugar.

Han character

糖 (radical 119 米+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 火木戈中口 (FDILR), four-corner 9096₇, composition ⿰米唐)

1. sugar
2. candy
3. sweets

References

• KangXi: page 911, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27070
• Dae Jaweon: page 1338, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3157, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7CD6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

糖 (Yale tong2, tong4)

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Japanese

Kanji

糖 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: あめ (ame), さとう (satou)

Compounds

• 糖衣
• 糖化
• 糖尿病
• 糖分
• 糖類

Suffix

糖 (hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. sugar

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Korean

Hanja

糖 (hangeul 당, 탕, revised dang, tang, McCune-Reischauer tang, t'ang, Yale tang, thang)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

糖 (pinyin táng (tang2), Wade-Giles t'ang²)

Compounds

• 糖弹
• 糖分
• 糖瓜, 糖瓜儿
• 糖罐, 糖罐儿
• 糖果
• 糖葫芦, 糖葫芦儿
• 糖化
• 糖浆
• 糖精
• 糖萝卜
• 糖蜜
• 糖尿病
• 糖人, 糖人儿
• 糖食
• 糖霜
• 糖蒜
• 糖稀
• 糖衣
• 糖衣炮弹
• 糖原, 糖元
• 糖纸
• 棉花糖

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Vietnamese

Han character

糖 (đường)