丼
Meanings · dam2
- bowl of food ('don'
- 'donburi' in Japanese)
- the sound of tossing something into a well
- a surname
Meanings · zing2
- the alternative form of 井, a well
- a mine shaft
- a pit
Meanings · zeng2
- the alternative form of 井, a well
- a mine shaft
- a pit
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.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 丼 has the reading dam2 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zeng2. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 丼 dam2 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
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:
- 丼 dòng CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(Tw) bowl of steamed rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")
- 丼 jǐng CC-CEDICT · Mandarinold variant of 井 jǐng
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: jing3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 3 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
dam2 · zeng2 · zing2
Cantonese word readings for 丼. 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 · Etymology 1
- (onomatopoeia, obsolete) sound of tossing something into a well.
- a surname
character · Etymology 3
- donburi
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