垱 · dàng
a dike used to divert water in a rice paddy or field for irrigation
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
a dike used to divert water in a rice paddy or field for irrigation
- Mandarin
- dàng
- Cantonese
- dong3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+57B1
- Radical
- 土 · 32
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
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 垱
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
壋
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- dàng
- kCantonese
- dong3
- kDefinition
- a dike used to divert water in a rice paddy or field for irrigation
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 32.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+58CB
- kTGH
- 2013:4101
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- dàng 0216.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dàng 067.060