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)

References

• KangXi: page 883, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26004
• Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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, *doːŋ, *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
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
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thùng
• Jin (Wiktionary): tung²
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tông / tâng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dang⁵ / dang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˇ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung3
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: toong
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǒng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: tóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torng
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung⁴
    • Yale: tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thùng
    • Hakka Romanization System: tungˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tung²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰuŋ¹¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: tung²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /tʰxũŋ⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông
    • Tâi-lô: tông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doong
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâng
    • Tâi-lô: tâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daang
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /taŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /taŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /taŋ²³/

Note:

• tông - literary;
• tâng - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: dang⁵ / dang⁶
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tâng / tăng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taŋ⁵⁵/, /taŋ³⁵/

Note: dang6 - dialectal ("barrel, can").

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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	/*lˁoŋ/
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/

Definitions

筒

1. section of thick bamboo
2. hollow tube; pipe
3. barrel; can; tin

Compounds

• 五筒 (wǔtǒng)
• 信筒
• 傳聲筒／传声筒
• 出氣筒／出气筒 (chūqìtǒng)
• 出血筒子
• 剪筒
• 吹筒
• 唧筒 (jītǒng)
• 喇叭筒
• 圓筒／圆筒
• 垃圾筒 (lājītǒng)
• 套筒槍／套筒枪
• 封筒 (fēngtǒng)
• 封筒逆封
• 手電筒／手电筒 (shǒudiàntǒng)
• 打氣筒／打气筒 (dǎqìtǒng)
• 提筒
• 擲彈筒／掷弹筒
• 改革芒筒
• 旱煙筒／旱烟筒
• 氣筒／气筒
• 氧氣筒／氧气筒
• 注射筒 (zhùshètǒng)

• 浮筒
• 消火唧筒
• 滾筒／滚筒
• 激筒
• 火筒
• 火箭筒 (huǒjiàntǒng)
• 火紙筒子／火纸筒子
• 炮筒子
• 煙筒／烟筒 (yāntǒng)
• 爆破筒
• 甜筒 (tiántǒng)
• 皮筒兒／皮筒儿
• 直筒子
• 竹筒 (zhútǒng)
• 竹筒飯／竹筒饭
• 竹筒饭
• 筆筒／笔筒 (bǐtǒng)
• 筆筒樹／笔筒树
• 筒仔米糕
• 筒子 (tǒngzi)
• 筒形
• 筒欽／筒钦
• 筒箭

• 筒車／筒车
• 聽筒／听筒 (tīngtǒng)
• 芒筒 (mángtǒng)
• 花筒
• 萬花筒／万花筒 (wànhuātǒng)
• 藥筒／药筒
• 號筒／号筒 (hàotǒng)
• 號筒子／号筒子
• 蜜筒
• 袖筒 (xiùtǒng)
• 話筒／话筒 (huàtǒng)
• 郫筒
• 郵筒／邮筒 (yóutǒng)
• 量筒 (liángtǒng)
• 針筒／针筒
• 錢筒／钱筒
• 鎗筒／𬬰筒
• 鏡筒／镜筒
• 電筒／电筒 (diàntǒng)
• 電話筒／电话筒
• 靴筒
• 飯筒／饭筒
• 香筒

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Japanese

Kanji

筒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. Cylinder
2. Pipe
3. Tube
4. Gun barrel
5. Sleeve

Readings

• Go-on: ずう (zū)^{←づう (dū, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←とう (tou, historical)}
• Kun: つつ (tsutsu, 筒, Jōyō)^{←つつ (tutu, historical)}

Compounds

• 気(き)筒(とう) (kitō): cylinder (part of an engine)
• 喞(そく)筒(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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

筒(つつ) • (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(どう) • (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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