銅

See also: 铜

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 金 + phonetic 同

Han character

銅 (radical 167 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金月一口 (CBMR), four-corner 8712₀, composition ⿰金同)

1. copper, Cu
2. brass
3. bronze cuprum

References

• KangXi: page 1304, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40361
• Dae Jaweon: page 1806, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4196, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9285

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Cantonese

Hanzi

銅 (simplified 铜, Jyutping tung4, Yale tung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

銅

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term

銅

どう Grade: 5

on'yomi

• Goon: ずう (zū)
• Kan’on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yōon: どう (dō)
• Kun: あかがね (akagane)

Noun

銅 (hiragana どう, romaji dō)

1. copper, Cu

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Korean

Hanja

銅 (dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune-Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

銅 (simplified 铜, Pinyin tóng (tong2), Wade-Giles t'ung²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

銅 (đồng, đòng)

1. Hán tự form of đồng, "copper"