筒

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

trad.		筒
simp. #		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／形声, 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
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tông / tâng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): dang⁵ / dang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǒng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung³
    • Yale: tǔng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: toong
    • Palladius: тун (tun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²
    • Yale: túng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torng
    • Palladius: тун (tun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tung⁴
    • Yale: tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (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: duwng, duwngH

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
Baxter	duwng	duwngH
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tung4	dung6

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 筒

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

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Kanji

筒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings

• Go-on: ずう (zū)^{←づう (duu, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←とう (tou, historical)}
• Kun: つつ (tsutsu, 筒, Jōyō)^{←つつ (tutu, 筒, 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese tutu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Japonic *tútú.

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).

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

(deprecated template usage) 筒 (đồng)

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