党

党

See also: 黨

党 U+515A, 党 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-515A ← 兙 [U+5159] CJK Unified Ideographs 兛 → [U+515B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese	党
Simplified	党
Traditional	党/黨

Han character

党 (Kangxi radical 10, 儿+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 火月口竹山 (FBRHU), four-corner 9021₆, composition ⿱𫩠儿 or ⿱龸兄)

Derived characters

• 傥, 谠, 𭉧, 𪤅, 𫽮, 𣺼, 𭧋, 𣗋, 𬊵, 镋, 𧫆, 鎲

Related characters

• 黨 (Orthodox form in Traditional Chinese)

Further reading

• KangXi: page 125, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1381
• Dae Jaweon: page 265, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 273, character 11
• Unihan data for U+515A

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : phonetic 尚 (OC *djaŋ, *djaŋs) + semantic 儿 (“human”).

Besides its original senses, it is used as a simplified substitute for the character 黨.

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 党 – see 黨 (“community; fellow community member; gang; faction; etc.”). (This character, 党, is the simplified and variant form of 黨.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		党

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎng (dang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dong²
• Min Nan (POJ): tóng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎng
    • Wade–Giles: tang³
    • Yale: dǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daang
    • Palladius: дан (dan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dong²
    • Yale: dóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔːŋ³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tóng
    • Tâi-lô: tóng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dorng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ⁴¹/

Definitions

党

1. a surname

   党家村  ―  Dǎngjiā Cūn  ―  Dangjia Village

2. Used in 党項／党项 (Dǎngxiàng).

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Japanese

Shinjitai	党
Kyūjitai	黨

Kanji

党

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 黨)

1. political party

Readings

As shinjitai or abbreviated form of 黨:

• Go-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: なかま (nakama, 党)^{←なかま (nakama, historical)}; むら (mura, 党)^{←むら (mura, historical)}

As original character:

• Go-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}

Usage notes

Rare as an original character, and even more rarely used with its original reading; used mostly in the word 党(タン)項(グート) (tangūto, “Tangut”).

Kanji in this term
党
とう Grade: 6
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
黨 (kyūjitai)

Noun

党(とう) • (tō) 

1. political party

党(たむら) • (tamura) 

1. Alternative form of 屯

Suffix

党(とう) • (-tō) 

1. political party

References

• 諸橋轍次 (Morohashi Tetsuji), chief ed. 大漢和辞典 (Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, “Comprehensive Chinese–Japanese Dictionary”). 13 vols. 1955–1960. Revised and enlarged ed. 1984–1986. Tokyo: Taishukan.