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堂
Mandarin · pinyin táng
Meanings
- (main) hall
- large room for a specific purpose
- Classifier: 間 jiān
- relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family
- of the same clan
- classifier for classes, lectures etc
- classifier for sets of furniture
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- 堂
- táng · hall; government office
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Mandarin tones
2 · tang2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
tong4
Cantonese word readings for 堂. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- main room of a house
- (historical) courtroom in a yamen
- room or building for a specific purpose; hall; chamber
- hall (used in the name of halls, sometimes specifying lineage)
- shop; store (in traditional store names)
- (dialectal) class; lesson
- of the same paternal grandfather or great-grandfather
- (honorific) mother
- Classifier for sets of furniture.
- Classifier for classes or lessons.
- Classifier for court sessions.
- Classifier for scenes or murals.
- (Cantonese) Classifier for eyebrows.
- (Cantonese) Classifier for tools that are hung when in use.
- (Malaysian Cantonese, Southeast Asian Hakka) Classifier for vehicles.
- a surname
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