筒

筒 U+7B52, 筒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B52 ← 筑 [U+7B51] CJK Unified Ideographs 筓 → [U+7B53]

Translingual

Han character

筒 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹月一口 (HBMR), four-corner 8822₇, composition ⿱⺮同)

1. thick piece of bamboo
2. pipe

References

• KangXi: page 883, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26004
• Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2965, character 16
• Unihan data for U+7B52

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		筒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (同) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
鮦	*duʔ, *doŋʔ
侗	*tʰoːŋ, *tʰoːŋʔ, *doːŋ
恫	*tʰoːŋ, *doːŋs
痌	*tʰoːŋ
同	*doːŋ
仝	*zlon, *doːŋ
銅	*doːŋ
桐	*doːŋ
峒	*doːŋ, *doːŋs
硐	*doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
筒	*doːŋ, *doːŋs
洞	*doːŋ, *doːŋs
烔	*doːŋ
挏	*doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
酮	*doːŋ, *doːŋʔ
鲖	*doːŋ
眮	*doːŋ, *doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
衕	*doːŋ, *doːŋs
哃	*doːŋ
絧	*doːŋ, *doːŋs
姛	*doːŋʔ
詷	*doːŋʔ, *doːŋs
胴	*doːŋs
駧	*doːŋs
迵	*doːŋs
戙	*doːŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *doːŋ, *doːŋs): semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 同 (OC *doːŋ) – a bamboo pipe.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǒng, tóng (tong³, tong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˇ, ㄊㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): tông / tâng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˇ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ung³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: toong
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: tóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tongr
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung⁴
    • Yale: tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông
    • Tâi-lô: tông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâng
    • Tâi-lô: tâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daang
    • IPA (Xiamen): /taŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /taŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /taŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /taŋ²³/

Note:

• tông - literary;
• tâng - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /duŋ/, /duŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	筒	筒
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒紅切	徒弄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duŋ/	/duŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/duŋ/	/duŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/duŋ/	/duŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwŋ/	/dəwŋH/
Li Rong	/duŋ/	/duŋH/
Wang Li	/duŋ/	/duŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuŋ/	/dʱuŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tóng	dòng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*lˤoŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ/, /*doːŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	筒
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tǒng
Middle Chinese	‹ duwng ›
Old Chinese	/*lˤoŋ/
English	tube
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	筒	筒
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12452	12476
Phonetic component	同	同
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	同	洞
Old Chinese	/*doːŋ/	/*doːŋs/

Noun

筒

1. (affix) a section of bamboo
2. (affix) hollow tube; pipe
3. (affix) barrel; can; tin

Compounds

• 改革芒筒

• 芒筒 (mángtǒng)

• 萬花筒／万花筒 (wànhuātǒng)

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Japanese

Kanji

筒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ずう (zū)
• Kan’on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
• Kun: つつ (tsutsu, 筒, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 気 (き)筒 (とう) (kitō): cylinder (part of an engine)
• 喞筒 (そくとう) (sokutō): pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
筒
つつ Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese tutu, from Proto-Japonic *tútú, from Proto-Altaic *tū́ti. Compare Turkish düdük.

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) つつ​ [tsùtsúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
  • (Tokyo) つつ [tsùtsú] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥ᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

筒 (hiragana つつ, rōmaji tsutsu)

1. tube
2. hub (central part of a wheel)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
筒
どう Grade: S
Irregular

From 胴 (dō).

Pronunciation

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) ど​ー [dóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [do̞ː]

Noun

筒 (hiragana どう, rōmaji dō)

1. hub (central part of a wheel)

Synonyms

• (central part of a wheel): ハブ (habu), 轂 (こしき) (koshiki)

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Korean

Hanja

筒 • (tong) (hangeul 통, revised tong, McCune-Reischauer t'ong, Yale thong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筒 (đồng)

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