銅

See also: 铜

Translingual

Han character

銅 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金月一口 (CBMR), four-corner 8712₀, composition ⿰釒同)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1304, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40361
• Dae Jaweon: page 1806, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4196, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9285

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Chinese

trad.		銅
simp.		铜

Chemical element
Cu
Previous: 鎳／镍 (Ni)
Next: 鋅／锌 (Zn)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 銅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 同 (OC *doːŋ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 銅

1. copper (Cu)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (銅):

• → Japanese: 銅(どう) (dō)
• → Korean: 동(銅) (dong)
• → Vietnamese: đồng (銅, “copper; dong (Vietnamese currency)”)

Others:

• , ថង (thɑɑng, “gold”), ទង (tɔɔng, “gold”)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

銅

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ずう (zū)^{←づう (duu, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yō-on: どう (dō, Jōyō)
• Kun: あかがね (akagane, 銅)

Compounds

Compounds

• 黄銅(おうどう) (ōdō), 黄銅(こうどう) (kōdō): brass
• 青銅(せいどう) (seidō): bronze
• 銅製(どうせい) (dōsei): coppern
• 銅牌(どうはい) (dōhai): bronze medal
• 銅鑼(どら) (dora): gong
• 銅鐸(どうたく) (dōtaku): dōtaku

Chemical element
Cu
Previous: ニッケル (nikkeru) (Ni)
Next: 亜(あ)鉛(えん) (aen) (Zn)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
銅
どう Grade: 5
kan'yōon

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 銅／铜 (duwng, “copper”).

Noun

銅(どう) • (dō) 

1. copper, Cu

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
銅
あかがね Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Compound of 赤 (aka, “red”) +‎ 金 (kane, “metal”). The kane changes to gane as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

銅(あかがね) • (akagane) 

1. copper, Cu

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
銅
あか Grade: 5
irregular

Abbreviation of akagane.

Noun

銅(あか) • (aka) 

1. copper, Cu

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 銅 (đồng, đòng)

1. chữ Hán form of đồng (“copper”).