堂
Meanings · tong4
- (noun) 1. chest; 2. class
Meanings · tong4
- (main) hall
- large room for a specific purpose
- relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family
- of the same clan
- classifier for sets (or suites) of furniture, classes etc Mandarin classifier: 间
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 堂 táng CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(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
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: tang2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 16 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
tong4
Cantonese word readings for 堂. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
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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