搪

搪 U+642A, 搪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-642A ← 搩 [U+6429] CJK Unified Ideographs 搫 → [U+642B]

Translingual

Han character

搪 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手戈中口 (QILR), four-corner 5006₇, composition ⿰扌唐)

1. ward off, evade
2. parry
3. to block

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 448, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12505
• Dae Jaweon: page 798, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1936, character 2
• Unihan data for U+642A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		搪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (庚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
唐	*ɡl'aːŋ
煻	*l'aːŋ
糖	*l'aːŋ
搪	*l'aːŋ
蓎	*l'aːŋ
瑭	*l'aːŋ
餹	*l'aːŋ
篖	*l'aːŋ
螗	*l'aːŋ
塘	*l'aːŋ
鶶	*l'aːŋ
赯	*l'aːŋ
磄	*l'aːŋ
溏	*l'aːŋ
傏	*l'aːŋ
鎕	*l'aːŋ
榶	*l'aːŋ
嵣	*l'aːŋʔ, *l'aːŋs
庚	*kraːŋ
賡	*kraːŋ
鹒	*kraːŋ
康	*kʰlaːŋ
穅	*kʰlaːŋ
糠	*kʰlaːŋ
槺	*kʰlaːŋ
漮	*kʰlaːŋ
躿	*kʰlaːŋ
慷	*kʰlaːŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): táng (tang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tong⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tông / thn̂g / thn̄g / tn̄g

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: táng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: táng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻang²
    • Yale: táng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarng
    • Palladius: тан (tan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: tong⁴
    • Yale: tòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông
    • Tâi-lô: tông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doong
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thn̂g
    • Tâi-lô: thn̂g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tngg
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰŋ̍¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰŋ̍²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thn̄g
    • Tâi-lô: thn̄g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tng
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰŋ̍³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰŋ̍⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰŋ̍²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tn̄g
    • Tâi-lô: tn̄g
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dng
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tŋ̍³³/

Note:

• tông - literary;
• thn̂g - vernacular;
• thn̄g/tn̄g - vernacular (俗).

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• Middle Chinese: dang

Rime
Character	搪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒郎切
Baxter	dang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/daŋ/
Li Rong	/dɑŋ/
Wang Li	/dɑŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱɑŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	táng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tong4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	搪
Reading #	1/1
No.	3962
Phonetic component	庚
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	唐
Old Chinese	/*l'aːŋ/
Notes	見方言

Definitions

搪

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Compounds

• 推搪 (tuītáng)
• 搪塞 (tángsè)
• 搪差使
• 搪抹
• 搪瓷 (tángcí)
• 搪突
• 搪缸
• 搪酒吃
• 搪飢 / 搪饥
• 敷衍搪塞 (fūyǎntángsè)

Japanese

Kanji

搪

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): とう (tō)、どう (dō)
• Kun: はる (haru, 搪る)

Korean

Hanja

搪 • (dang) (hangeul 당, revised dang, McCune–Reischauer tang, Yale tang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

搪: Hán Nôm readings: đường

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