侗 · dòng
big; ignorant; rude, rustic
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
big; ignorant; rude, rustic
- Mandarin
- dòng
- Cantonese
- tung4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 侗 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 동
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4F97
- Radical
- 人 · 9
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 侗
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 同 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 同聲
Line 4853 · ⿰亻同 · 同聲 · source reference 2870450
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- duwng · 徒紅 反切 · #2
- Middle Chinese
- thuwng · 他紅 反切 · #29
- Middle Chinese
- thuwngX · 他孔 反切 · #1161
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 39 · duwng = 通開一平東定 · thuwng = 通開一平東透 · thuwngX = 通開一上東透
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- dòng
- kCantonese
- tung4
- kDefinition
- big; ignorant; rude, rustic
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 9.6
- kTGH
- 2013:3957
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- tōng,tóng,tǒng,dòng 10148.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- dòng 0261.090 · tóng 1154.050 · tǒng 1155.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dòng 078.150
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- dòng粵dung6 tóng粵tung4 tǒng粵tung2
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 徒紅 他紅 他孔
- Kangxi positions
- 0102.120
- Guangyun positions
- 023.34 031.31 236.18
- GSR references
- 1176j
- Cangjie
- OBMR
- Four-corner
- 2722.0