堂

Translingual

Han character

堂 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火月口土 (FBRG), four-corner 9010₄, composition ⿱尚土)

Derived characters

• 隚 摚 嘡 漟 憆 樘 膛 瞠 鏜 (镗) 螳 糛 蹚 饄 鞺 鼞 闛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 231, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5207
• Dae Jaweon: page 469, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 452, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5802

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		堂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 堂
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (尚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
當	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
襠	*taːŋ
鐺	*taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ
簹	*taːŋ
璫	*taːŋ
檔	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
儅	*taːŋ, *taːŋs
蟷	*taːŋ
擋	*taːŋʔ, *taːŋs
黨	*taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ
讜	*taːŋʔ
欓	*taːŋʔ
譡	*taːŋs
闣	*taːŋs
瓽	*taːŋs
鏜	*tʰaːŋ
闛	*tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ
鼞	*tʰaːŋ
曭	*tʰaːŋʔ
儻	*tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs
戃	*tʰaːŋʔ
矘	*tʰaːŋʔ
爣	*tʰaːŋʔ
攩	*hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs
淌	*tʰaːŋʔ
倘	*tʰaːŋʔ
躺	*tʰaːŋʔ
趟	*tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs
堂	*daːŋ
坣	*daːŋ
棠	*daːŋ
糛	*daːŋ
螳	*daːŋ
隚	*daːŋ
橖	*daːŋ
掌	*tjaŋʔ
廠	*tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs
敞	*tʰjaŋʔ
僘	*tʰjaŋʔ
氅	*tʰjaŋʔ
常	*djaŋ
嘗	*djaŋ
裳	*djaŋ
徜	*djaŋ
尚	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
甞	*djaŋ
鋿	*djaŋ
嫦	*djaŋ
償	*djaŋ, *djaŋs
賞	*hjaŋʔ
瞠	*rtʰaːŋ
撐	*rtʰaːŋ
樘	*rtʰaːŋ
橕	*rtʰaːŋ
牚	*rtʰaːŋs
埫	*tʰoŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːŋ) : phonetic 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 土.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 堂

1. main room of a house
2. (historical) courtroom in a yamen
3. room for a specific purpose
4. hall; chamber; large room
5. shop; store (in traditional store names)
6. class; lesson
7. of the same paternal grandfather or great-grandfather
8. (honorific) mother
9. Classifier for sets of furniture.
10. Classifier for classes or lessons.
11. Classifier for court sessions.
12. Classifier for scenes or murals.
13. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

堂

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: どう (dō, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kun: たかどの (takadono, 堂); すまい (sumai)

Compounds

• 食堂(しょくどう) (shokudō, “cafeteria, dining room”)

Noun

堂(どう) • (dō) 

1. temple
2. shrine
3. hall

Prefix

堂(どう) • (dō-) 

1. magnificent (building)

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Korean

Hanja

堂 • (dang) (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune–Reischauer tang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 堂 (đường, đoàng)

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