衕

See also: 同

衕 U+8855, 衕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8855 ← 衔 [U+8854] CJK Unified Ideographs 衖 → [U+8856]

Translingual

Han character

衕 (Kangxi radical 144, 行+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人月口弓 (HOBRN), four-corner 2122₁, composition ⿴行同 or ⿲彳同亍)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1109, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34048
• Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 832, character 13
• Unihan data for U+8855

Chinese

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 行 + phonetic 同 (OC *doːŋ).

Etymology 1

trad.		衕/同*
simp.		同*
alternative forms		㣚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tòng (tong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tòng

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tòng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung⁴
    • Yale: tùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tonq
    • Palladius: тун (tun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tung⁴
    • Yale: tùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tòng
    • Tâi-lô: tòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doxng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ²¹/

---

• Middle Chinese: duwng, duwngH

Rime
Character	衕	衕
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋ/, /*doːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衕	衕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12460	12478
Phonetic component	同	同
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	同	洞
Old Chinese	/*doːŋ/	/*doːŋs/

Definitions

衕

1. ^† passageway; lane; alley

Compounds

• 死衚衕／死胡同 (sǐhútòng)
• 花衚衕／花胡同
• 血衚衕／血胡同
• 衚衕／胡同 (hútòng)
• 衚衕兒／胡同儿 (hútòngr)
• 錦衚衕／锦胡同

 

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		衕

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dòng (dong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dung⁶

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dòng
    • Wade–Giles: tung⁴
    • Yale: dùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: donq
    • Palladius: дун (dun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: dung⁶
    • Yale: duhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊŋ²²/

---

• Middle Chinese: duwngH

Rime
Character	衕
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒弄切
Baxter	duwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/duŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/duŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwŋH/
Li Rong	/duŋH/
Wang Li	/duŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dung6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːŋs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衕
Reading #	2/2
No.	12478
Phonetic component	同
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	洞
Old Chinese	/*doːŋs/

Definitions

衕

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) diarrhoea

Japanese

Kanji

衕

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. alley
2. lane

Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)、ず (zu)
• Kun: ちまた (chimata)

Korean

Hanja

衕 • (dong, tong) (hangeul 동, 통, revised dong, tong, McCune–Reischauer tong, t'ong, Yale tong, thong)

1. street
2. avenue

Vietnamese

Han character

衕: Hán Nôm readings: đồng

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