銅

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 金 (“‘metal’”) + phonetic 同

[edit] 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, brass, bronze cuprum

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

銅 (simplified 铜, Yale tung4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

銅 (hiragana どう, romaji dō)

1. (chemistry) copper, Cu

[edit] Kanji

銅 (grade 5 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: どう (dō), とう (tō)
• Kun: あかがね (akagane)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

銅 (đồng, đòng)